open your eyes- new presentation jam 2013

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

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

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.

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.

This is a picture of the Sheila McDevitt, the ship that

brought the food from the US

Looking down into the cargo hold.

Can you see the stevedores?

Unloading from the hold

Onto trucks in Lobito Port

Trucks arriving on base to begin

discharging

Outside view of Benguela Warehouse

Unloading into one of the Benguela warehouses

Unloading from containers

On an average day when we unload a vessel like the Sheila McDevitt

about 50 people are involved from sunrise to sunset

JAM Warehousing : Clean and Neat

Working in the field – Here are some pictures of our

beneficiaries – Schoolchildren at Escola do Pato in Caimbambo

Escola do Pato Caimbambo

Children in Malnutrition Clinics

Some malnourished cases are severe as you can see

Receiving and Preparing Therapeutic

Milk in Sumbe

In many areas where we work there is little or no

water. There was a serious drought in Benguela

Province in 2012

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

JAM Angola transportation fleet

Sometimes other methods are used

Many different donors have offered support

in late 2012 and early 2013: Fazenda

Boaventuranca in Sumbe

Fazenda Boaventuranca again:

supplying onions for hospitals

Delivery to Hospitals

Shoprite Supply of Food for

our beneficiaries

Arrival and distribution of food from

Shoprite at Christmas time

But any organization anywhere is only as good

as the people who work there.

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

Not everyone but many of our colleagues

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

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

Another view where you can see the greenhouse area and

warehouses at the bottom

Greenhouse area with local plants and

earth boxes

Earth boxes with seedlings being prepared to take to

schools at the beginning of the school year in

February

Front view of the housing area on base

Drilling vehicles – parked and waiting

for the team to arrive

View from the housing area. There was

nothing here a year ago!

Another view from the housing area

Housing area again

Onjango: where we have devotions and

large meetings

JAM Base near the office side entrance

The bananas we planted are now

bearing fruit

We’ve planted behind the housing area as well

We hope to have much more to show you

during the course of this year!

Thanks for this

opportunity to share

with you some of

what we do !