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• Education: Each year, Total finances 200 higher
education grants and scholarships for Angolan stu-
dents who carry on their studies mainly in Angola,
France, Portugal and USA. Total also sponsors lit-
eracy programs for about 4,500 people.
Four high schools built by Total have opened in
Bengo, Ndalatando, Malanje and Cunene prov-
inces since February 2009, under an agreement
signed with the Angolan Ministry of Education.
Each of them is offering grades 10 to 12 equivalent
classes to about 150 students.
The country’s public authorities approved the en-
riched curriculum goals with more classroom hours
devoted to the sciences and teaching in English,
French and Portuguese, and a focus on attaining
excellence. This initiative, unmatched in the coun-
try, solidifies a closer cooperation with Angola in the
realm of education, beyond the specific training re-
quired to develop the oil and gas industry.
Insert photo Total Ndalatando Schhol
Students in Ndalatando school
(photo credit Total)
• Health: since 2005, Total E&P Angola has sup-
ported a Luanda-based NGO, the CAJ, Centro de
Apoio aos Jovens, founded in 2001 to assist young
people by providing information about sexual and
reproductive health and the prevention of STDs and
HIV. The partnership aims to expand the CAJ’s ca-
pacities, to train health care professionals and so-
cial workers, health care mediators, peer educators
and design teaching tools. In the last three years,
nearly 16,000 people attended consultations,
12,000 agreed to be tested for HIV and 3.3% were
tested positive.
Total E&P Angola also supports a health program
led by “Douleurs sans frontières” in the Zaïre prov-
ince, which concerns 106 villages. The program
includes medical advices, vaccination campaigns
and midwives trainings, which result in a very sig-
nificant decrease of infantile death tolls and main
pathologies.
• Economic community development: financial
support is provided to entrepreneurs who struggle
(seek) to find the necessary funds for the creation
or development of their businesses through the cre-
ation of guarantee funds. In 2006, Total E&P Angola
launched the “Zimbo” program with Angolan bank
Totta and several NGOs to support the creation
and growth of small and medium-sized companies.
As part of this program, Total E&P Angola has set
up a guarantee fund to facilitate access to loans
for small businesses. The program minimizes the
credit risk for the bank (Totta) making it easier for
it to grant affordable loans to small and medium-
sized businesses. Zimbo has led to the creation of
three hundred jobs and a dozen local businesses
including a textile workshop, an Internet café and a
farm cooperative.
“Total, as one of the major International Oil Compa-
nies, has been a permanent partner of Sonangol in
the development of oil resources since 1952. Our
goal is to reinforce this partnership in the years to
come by developing the discovered field, by replac-
ing the produced reserves through exploration of
new acreage and new geological themes and by
developing the human resources of the company.
A large part of the work which covers all the steps
from exploration to production is performed lo-
cally by Total’s staff. One of our main objectives is
to make Angolanization a success by sharing our
expertise and knowledge with our local staff and
with the concessionaire Sonangol. To sustain an
increase of production and staff of more than 60%
in the coming years, an adequate training program
has been set up for the new hired staff and to re-
inforce the expertise of our present staff. Achiev-
ing this program with the partnership of Sonangol
and the Ministry of Petroleum, will be the key of our
future and one step further for the future of oil in-
dustry in Angola.”
Philippe Chalon
Former General Manager
Total’s future new headquarters in Luanda