
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that kills nearly one million children under the age of five every year in sub-Saharan Africa -- including in the five upstream countries where ExxonMobil has significant business presence and investment.

Elliott Yamin and Fantasia Barrino recently visited Angola to assess the impact of the money raised last year during the Idol Gives Back fundraiser.

In March 2008, American Idol celebrities Fantasia Barrino and Elliott Yamin traveled to Africa as guests of Esso Angola.

UNICEF and other partners joined Esso Angola in providing the funding to build a new wing of the Forte Sante Rosa school in Tombwa, Angola.