While helping, the need is great. Now discussions are underway about returning to general food distributions to all people in Malange, something that had not existed since 1995. Water is another area where World Vision is helping. For the community of Marimba, now being settled 7 kilometers from the edge of Malange, their closest source of water is an open stream one and a half kilometers from their temporary home. 6,851 people from Marimba depend on that stream for water for cooking, drinking, washing clothes and bathing.
Conditions are ripe for epidemics.
World Vision's water and sanitation team is there and responding with bore-holes and latrines as well as sanitation education messages passed on through puppet shows, songs and theatre. However, the needs are greater than their capacity to respond. Another threat awaits the Angolan people, lying dormant in the ground. Angola has the second highest number of landmines in the world. There are an estimated 12 million landmines planted in Angola, one for every man, woman and child in the country.