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Place of Birth: Luanda, Luanda Province, Angola
About Ana Paula dos Santos
- Ana Paula Cristovão Lemos dos Santos (born October 17, 1963) is the wife of former President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos.
- She served as Angola's First Lady from 1991 to 2017.
- Former fashion model and air hostess of the presidential Angolan aeroplane, Ana Paula dos Santos knew her husband during the time in which she was working on presidential flights.
- They married on 17 May 1991 and are parents of three children, Eduane Danilo dos Santos (born 29 September 1991), Joseana dos Santos (born 5 April 1995) and Eduardo Breno dos Santos (born 2 October 1998).
- Between 1990 and 1994, she completed a state teacher training at the National Institute of Education, Luanda.
- Later she completed a course of law at the Faculty of Law of the Agostinho Neto University. A diplomat described the President and First Lady as: "a handsome couple, elegantly and expensively dressed, looking for all the world as though they're living in southern California." In 1997 Ana Paula undiplomatically announced that her five-year-old son would enroll at the Portuguese school in Luanda because of the "bad quality" of state education (for which many hold her husband responsible).
- She has also tried to make her presence felt in administrative matters; a move which has irritated the political mainstream.
- Also under fire are her business interests, particularly diamonds. She is a patron of the Committee to support rural women (COMUR), supporting with micro-credit funds.
- She represented her country at the Micro-credit Summit for Heads of States and Governments in Washington D.C., in 1997.
- Ana Paula dos Santos is also very active in her support of landmine victims.
- Therefore she founded the Lwini Fund for social solidarity which is dedicated to the support of civilians, particularly women and children.
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