Social Initiatives

in Angola

American First Investment LLC believes that responsible investment must leave more than infrastructure behind. In the communities where we work in Angola, our commitment is to help build the foundations of dignity: safe homes for children, care for elders, and schools that give young people a path forward.

Angola is Our Community

Angola is a country of extraordinary resilience and promise. Its economy continues to grow, with GDP growth of 4.4% in 2024 and GDP per capita around US$2,666, yet many families still face fragile daily conditions. More than half of Angolans were estimated to live on less than US$3.65 per day, and unemployment remained high, even as it improved from 30.8% in Q3 2024 to 26.9% in Q3 2025. Informality remains widespread, with about 80% of jobs outside the formal economy.

In peri-urban and suburban communities around Angola’s growing cities, the challenges are often visible in everyday life: crowded housing, limited access to reliable water and sanitation, long distances to school, unstable household income, and families caring for children and elderly relatives with few formal support systems. The World Bank has identified clean water and basic sanitation as urgent priorities, especially for peri-urban and rural populations.

“Our work in Angola is not only about investment. It is about trust. When a company enters a community, it has a responsibility to understand the lives, hopes, and pressures of the people who already call that place home.”

Riki Zheng, Director of Social Initiatives

Why We Act

Behind every statistic is a family making choices no family should have to make: whether to buy food or pay transport to school, whether an elderly parent can receive care, whether a child without stable guardianship can stay safe, enrolled, and hopeful.

Angola’s children and youth represent one of the country’s greatest strengths. But education access, child protection, and family vulnerability remain critical issues. UNICEF’s Angola reporting highlights continuing priorities around children’s welfare, social protection, and updated demographic data collection through the 2023–2024 survey cycle.

At the same time, Angola is actively seeking new ways to finance education and human capital. In 2026, the World Bank and MIGA approved guarantees supporting Angola’s planned debt-for-education swap, designed to free resources for new schools and improvements in the education system.

American First Investment LLC wants to complement this national direction at the community level.

Our Commitment

We aim to support the development of safe, well-managed children’s homes for vulnerable children, including those who lack stable family care. Our approach emphasizes protection, nutrition, education continuity, emotional support, and pathways back into community life where appropriate.

Homes for Children

We aim to support community-based elderly care facilities that provide safety, dignity, companionship, basic health monitoring, and daily assistance for older people who may otherwise be isolated or unsupported.

Care for the Elderly

We aim to support school construction and education access in the communities where we work, with attention to classrooms, sanitation, learning materials, teacher support, and practical skills that can connect young people to future employment.

Schools for the Future

  • A mother’s calculation

    In a peri-urban neighborhood outside Luanda, a mother wakes before sunrise to prepare food, find transport, and send her children to school. Her income changes week by week. When prices rise, education becomes a daily negotiation. Her dream is simple: that her daughter finishes school and works in an office, not because office work is glamorous, but because it means stability.

  • A grandfather’s quiet hope

    An elderly man who once worked in construction now depends on relatives who are themselves under pressure. He does not ask for much: a clean place to sleep, medicine when needed, and someone to speak with in the afternoon. For him, dignity is not abstract. It is being remembered.

  • A boy who wants to build

    A young student says he wants to become an engineer. He has seen roads, ports, machines, and construction sites, but he has not always had a classroom with enough materials. What he needs is not charity alone. He needs a bridge between ambition and opportunity.

How We Measure Our Work

American First Investment LLC will apply a transparent impact framework, including:

  • Number of children supported, school attendance, nutrition, health referrals, safeguarding standards

  • Number of elders served, daily care quality, health monitoring, social activities

  • Classrooms built or renovated, students reached, sanitation access, learning materials delivered

  • Local workers hired, local suppliers engaged, training opportunities created

  • Community consultations, partner reporting, annual social impact updates

Where we build, we also belong. Where we invest, we also care.

We do not believe social responsibility should be symbolic. It should be planned, measured, and sustained.

American First Investment LLC is committed to working with local communities, public institutions, and trusted partners to ensure that our projects in Angola contribute not only to economic development, but also to human development.