Water/Angola
This work is a small selection from a commission undertaken in 2009 for Men's Health USA documenting the work of Doug Steinberg, director of Save the Children, Angola.
In Angola, child mortality isn't a random, rare tragedy, it's a common one.
Nearly all of Angola's child mortality cases can be traced back to water.
Open water sources breed mosquitoes, and malaria is one of the two biggest child killers in Angola. Diarrhea, or dysentery, is the other caused by untreated water and once a child gets sick, it can be dead within a couple of days, especially if, like 45% of Angola's children, they're already malnourished.
One out of six children die before their fifth birthday. An alarming statistic worsened by the fact that Angola is a booming, international business vortex, flush with oil, diamonds and a $20 billion budget surplus.
Angola is thriving.
This work is a small selection from a commission undertaken in 2009 for Men's Health USA documenting the work of Doug Steinberg, director of Save the Children, Angola.
In Angola, child mortality isn't a random, rare tragedy, it's a common one.
Nearly all of Angola's child mortality cases can be traced back to water.
Open water sources breed mosquitoes, and malaria is one of the two biggest child killers in Angola. Diarrhea, or dysentery, is the other caused by untreated water and once a child gets sick, it can be dead within a couple of days, especially if, like 45% of Angola's children, they're already malnourished.
One out of six children die before their fifth birthday. An alarming statistic worsened by the fact that Angola is a booming, international business vortex, flush with oil, diamonds and a $20 billion budget surplus.
Angola is thriving.
angola # I
angola # II
angola # III, collecting water from a storm drain
angola # IV, hospital corridor
angola # V, infant vaccinations
angola # VI, children at the river
angola # VII, children at the river
angola # VIII, water seller
angola # IX, orphanage
angola # X, fetching water at dawn
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