A malnourished girl in Kamasinque in the charred ruins of what had been her family's home until UNITA forces burned it in 1999, forcing the family to flee. They returned home in July 2002, facing huge obstacles in resuming their life as subsistence farmers. ACT is helping families like them with seeds, agricultural tools, and other assistance.

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A young Angolan woman, living in a camp for internally displaced persons, died of nutrition-related respiratory problems near the town of Luena. Here her body is carried by neighbors to be buried. As many as four million Angolans are internally displaced. With the war's end, many want to go home, but face serious obstacles to restarting their lives in peace.

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In the UNITA quartering area of Uamba in the northern province of Uige, children of former rebel combatants struggle to learn in a makeshift school. More than 300,000 UNITA fighters and family members are living in 36 such camps around the country, experiencing tremendous needs.

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In Muxirigingi, a small town in war-torn eastern Angola, rebel UNITA forces destroyed the community's school. LWF/ACT is going to help rehabilitate the school, as well as clinics and schools in other villages, in order to help Angolans get a solid start at living in peace.

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In Muacanhica, a camp for displaced persons, and in dozens of other villages around the country, ACT continues helping displaced women and their children survive the humanitarian crisis in Angola today.

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A demobilized UNITA fighter and his family wait in front of their home in the quartering area at Lucusse in eastern Angola. ACT is working in several areas to provide assistance -- from blankets to vocational training -- to these families, who face dramatic needs in the weeks and months ahead.

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A mother helps feed her malnourished daughter in a therapeutic feeding center in Luena. The displacement of four million people in Angola has left many on the edge of survival.

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A father helps feed his malnourished daughter in a therapeutic feeding center in Luena. The displacement of four million people in Angola has left many on the edge of survival.

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With help from ACT, internally displaced women in the eastern Angolan village of Luchazes are building a better quality life for themselves and their families.

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Angola's long civil war left the country's infrastructure in a shambles. Here the bridge over the Cassai River in Moxico province was blown up three times by UNITA rebels during the war.

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An internally displaced family makes its way home in July near Sanza-Pombo in the northern province of Uige. ACT is working with tens of thousands of families like this to help them get their lives restarted after Angola's long civil war.

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An internally displaced family makes its way home in July near Sanza-Pombo in the northern province of Uige. ACT is working with tens of thousands of families like this to help them get their lives restarted after Angola's long civil war.

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In the eastern Angolan village of Muachimbo, an ACT-sponsored theatre and dance group performs, educating community members about the dangers of land mines.

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In the eastern Angolan village of Muachimbo, an ACT-sponsored theatre and dance group performs, educating community members about the dangers of land mines.

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In the eastern Angolan village of Muachimbo, an ACT-sponsored theatre and dance group educates community members about the dangers of land mines.

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Angola has more than 86,000 land mine victims. Mines from over 22 countries have been used in Angola. Although peace has finally come, the country will continue to struggle with land mines for many years. ACT supports both demining and mine awareness education.

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Demobilized UNITA soldiers in the demobilization camp at Chicala, in eastern Angola, celebrate peace with traditional Ovimbundu drumming and dance.

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The child of a demobilized UNITA combatant in the Lucusse quartering area. ACT is helping these families make the transition to civilian life.

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Angola has more than 86,000 land mine victims. Mines manufactured in at least 22 countries have been planted here. Although peace has finally come to Angola, the country will continue to struggle with land mines for many years. ACT supports both demining and mine awareness education.

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ACT is present in several places in Angola helping victims of the long civil war. Here, displaced people in Moxico province ride a bike with a bucket provided to families to haul water.

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Displaced women have to walk long distances for water, firewood, and food. Here, two displaced women near Luena walk for hours into town to sell bags of charcoal they have produced.

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In the resettlement village of Luchazes, LWF/ACT agricultural specialist Benjamin José (right) helps Fernando Casoco with his cassava crop.

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In Muacanhica, and in other villages in war-torn Angola, ACT is helping women and their families survive the post-war humanitarian crisis.

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On the just reopened, heavily mined road from Luena to Lucusse, scores of ruined vehicles provide evidence of the fierce fighting in this area in the last months of the war. Remaining mines and unexploded ordnance today hinder relief work and endanger those struggling to get food and emergency supplies to desperately needy families.

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Demobilized UNITA soldiers pass time playing cards in their quartering area at Chicala. What does the future hold for these men? ACT is helping them and their families survive and prepare for a new future.

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With help from ACT, including this well installed by LWF/ACT in the resettlement village of Luchazes, women and their families are living better lives.

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Children in Luanda, displaced by the war, share scarce food.

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Linda Mosango, a displaced woman and one of more than 86,000 land mine victims in Angola today. With help from ACT, many are surviving and rebuilding their lives.

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A child soldier in the Chicala quartering area. Both UNITA and the government military forcibly recruited underage combatants.

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The daughter of a demobilized UNITA combatant in the Chicala quartering area. Many of these children have never known peace.

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Learn war no more: Children once displaced by war are now settling into new homes in the village of Bundas, in Moxico province, and LWF/ACT is helping insure that they have educational and recreational activities.

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The most vulnerable, including single mothers and the elderly, get their homes built by community members in an LWF/ACT program in the resettlement of Bundas in Moxico province.

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Feliciana Alfonso came home to Kamasinque with the end of the war in Angola, but found only the charred ruins of what had been her family's home until UNITA forces burned it in 1999, forcing the family to flee. They returned home in July 2002, facing huge obstacles in resuming their life as subsistence farmers. ACT is helping families like them with seeds, agricultural tools, and other assistance.

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A girl in Bundas, a resettlement community for families that were once displaced by Angola's civil war and have been unable to return to their communities of origin. ACT is helping these families with seeds, tools, shelter, health training, peacemaking skills, and a variety of other services.

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A boy whose family was displaced by Angola's long civil war sells brooms on the streets of Luena, the capital of Moxico province in the far east of Angola.

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A demobilized UNITA soldier and his son construct an earthen oven in the quartering area at Lucusse in the eastern province of Moxico.

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As her children look on, the wife of a demobilized UNITA combatant cooks food for her family in the quartering area at Chicala. ACT is helping these families to prepare for a peaceful future.

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The wife of a demobilized UNITA combatant cooks food for her family in the quartering area at Chicala. ACT is helping these families to prepare for a peaceful future.

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Ester Cagila, 16, a member of an ACT-sponsored theatre and dance group educates villagers about the dangers of land mines. Here she dances in Muachimbo, in eastern Angola.

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The Catholic chapel in Kikiala, a town in Uige province abandoned by the civilian population in 1999 after being attacked by UNITA.

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In the eastern Angolan village of Muachimbo, an ACT-sponsored theatre and dance group educates community members about the dangers of land mines.

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Children in the Lucusse quartering area in eastern Angola, practice counting by using sticks. Conditions in the camps has been deplorable, and ACT is now helping in several of the quartering areas with soap, blankets, other non-food items, as well as health training and special assistance with conflict resolution and reconciliation.

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A child in Muachimbo, in war-torn Moxico province, holds an ACT-provided mine awareness poster, part of a larger ACT program of demining and mine education.

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In Muachimbo, in Moxico province, a displaced woman sifts cassava flour she has ground.

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In Muapeso, a village full of displaced persons who have returned home in recent weeks, a woman draws water from a well. ACT is helping tens of thousands of families like hers to get a new start on life.

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A girl in Uige who -- like almost a third of her country's population -- has been displaced by violence and war.

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A woman displaced by Angola's long civil war prepares dinner where she lives, with thousands of other displaced, on the edges of the provincial capital of Uige.

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A woman displaced by Angola's long civil war sells fish in the town market in Uige.

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With help from ACT, these displaced children living in the provincial capital of Uige are receiving school classes.

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With help from ACT, these displaced children living in the provincial capital of Uige are receiving school classes.

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In the remote village of Vista Alegre, Uige, a displaced woman has returned home and set about making blocks to build a new home.

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A girl on the streets of Luena in eastern Angola gives the sign that things are getting better.

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Nene Beatriz, just home after years of living in the bush to escape fighting, arrived back home in the village of Luxia in July to find just the walls of her house.

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Benita Mutanga, a displaced Angolan woman who has resettled in the village of Bundas, is growing food and becoming self-sufficient with help from ACT.

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With water from a well provided by ACT, internally displaced women and their families are surviving in war-torn Angola. This well is in Muacanhica, in Moxico province.

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With water from a well provided by ACT, internally displaced women and their families are surviving in war-torn Angola. This well is in Muacanhica, in Moxico province.

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In a demobilization camp for former UNITA rebels at Uamba, in the north of Angola near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the son of a former combatant studies his school work in a war-damaged building.

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A land mine victim practices walking on his new prosthetic leg in a Luena center run by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.

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A woman waiting at the center for land mine victims in Luena run by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. At least 86,000 Angolans have been maimed or killed by land mines.

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A selection of old prosthetic devices at a Luena center for land mine victims run by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. At least 86,000 Angolans have been killed or maimed by land mines.

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Old enemies: A government soldier (right) greets a UNITA combatant at the Lucusse quartering area. ACT is working for peace and reconciliation in several areas of the country.

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The wife of a demobilized UNITA combatant in Lucusse brings roofing material she has gathered to use in constructing her temporary home.

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An elite UNITA soldier in the quartering area at Lucusse, in eastern Moxico province. Will these combatants be able to withstand the pressures pushing them to war and violence?

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With help from ACT, women in the resettlement village of Bundas -- and similar communities around the country -- are growing food for their families.

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UNITA Gen. Jacobe Matos greets local LWF director Moises Gourgel during an ACT assessment visit to the Lucusse quartering area on July 13.

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