Angola country activity 2013.

1. This might be an eye opener…….
Come and see what JAM ANGOLA is
doing in 2013
Here is a quick look at who we are, what we
do, where we live and work in Angola.
Take a few minutes and join us on this trip
through Benguela Province

2. We are a team of individuals who work to support school
feeding and help vulnerable women and children.
Like any team, JAM Angola is made up of different people
from different backgrounds with different jobs to do
What do we do?
1. We work in primary schools.
We feed about 270,000
children in schools in
Benguela Province, 530 km
south of the Capital city of
Luanda.
2. These children are in about
470 schools in all of
Benguela’s Districts

3. Thanks to a variety of different donors we are
able to support malnutrition centres and hospitals
throughout Benguela Province
Supporting all of these activities are qualified
staff who plan activities , unload cargo, prepare
transportation, pay invoices and monitor what is
going on in the schools and establishments we
work with and support. In the next few slides we
will talk about the different aspects of our work
and the beneficiaries that we serve throughout
the year.

4. Receiving Commodities
As you may know, the most important part of food we
receive comes as a grant from the United States
Department of Agriculture in a program known as
McGovern Dole. The food is shipped from the United
States to the Port of Lobito where it is unloaded from
the vessel and then driven to our warehouses in
Benguela. The food will be stored there until it is
shipped out to field warehouses and about 470 schools
in the province. Here are some pictures of unloading
that took place last week.

5. This is a picture of the Sheila McDevitt, the ship that
brought the food from the US

6. Looking down into the cargo hold.
Can you see the stevedores?

7. Unloading from the hold

8. Onto trucks in Lobito Port

9. Trucks arriving on base to begin
discharging

10. Outside view of Benguela Warehouse

11. Unloading into one of the Benguela warehouses

12. Unloading from containers

13. On an average day when we unload a vessel like the Sheila McDevitt
about 50 people are involved from sunrise to sunset

14. JAM Warehousing : Clean and Neat

15. Working in the field – Here are some pictures of our
beneficiaries – Schoolchildren at Escola do Pato in Caimbambo

16. Escola do Pato Caimbambo

17. Children in Malnutrition Clinics

18. Some malnourished cases are severe as you can see

19. Receiving and Preparing Therapeutic
Milk in Sumbe

20. In many areas where we work there is little or no
water. There was a serious drought in Benguela
Province in 2012

21. We would be remiss if we didn’t talk about wells:
this year we should be drilling in 2 Provinces
We should also have new sources of
funding to support these activities
in 2013

22. JAM Angola transportation fleet

23. Sometimes other methods are used

24. Many different donors have offered support
in late 2012 and early 2013: Fazenda
Boaventuranca in Sumbe

25. Fazenda Boaventuranca again:
supplying onions for hospitals

26. Delivery to Hospitals

27. Shoprite Supply of Food for
our beneficiaries

28. Arrival and distribution of food from
Shoprite at Christmas time

29. But any organization anywhere is only as good
as the people who work there.

30. Here are a few pictures of your colleagues working in
Angola: On the left Daniel, supervisor in Cubal and on
the right Estela and Luis Oliveira. She is a supervisor
in Lobito and Luis is a monitor in Dombe Grande

32. Not everyone but many of our colleagues

33. Some key members of JAM Staff in Angola
Muez Musans,
Acting Head of DME
Eddie Gwindiri,
Head of CAS/Logistics
Manuel Gonga, Program Manager Ben Van Dyk,
Mechanic
Patrick Dumont,
Country Manager
Isaac Togo
Finance Manager
Johan Van Rensburg
Fleet Manager
Marlene Quiosa
Human Resources

35. Here are some pictures of the JAM Base in Angola – where
we work and where some of us live: This is a view from the
water tank above the housing area overlooking the base itself

36. Another view where you can see the greenhouse area and
warehouses at the bottom

37. Greenhouse area with local plants and
earth boxes

38. Earth boxes with seedlings being prepared to take to
schools at the beginning of the school year in
February

39. Front view of the housing area on base

40. Drilling vehicles – parked and waiting
for the team to arrive

41. View from the housing area. There was
nothing here a year ago!

42. Another view from the housing area

43. Housing area again

44. Onjango: where we have devotions and
large meetings

45. JAM Base near the office side entrance

46. The bananas we planted are now
bearing fruit

47. We’ve planted behind the housing area as well

48. We hope to have much more to show you
during the course of this year!

49. Thanks for this
opportunity to share
with you some of
what we do !