Luanda - The National Integrated Ticketing Company (ENBI) on Thursday began issuing and delivering social transport passes called 'GiraMAIs' for students in the provinces of Luanda and Huíla.
With the social pass, the student will be entitled to 60 free monthly trips on the way from home to school and vice versa, for a period of three renewable years.
According to the president of the Executive Committee of the National Company of Integrated Ticketing, Mário Nsigue, so far four thousand five hundred students are registered in the system.
Mário Nsigue said that more than a thousand social passes will be printed daily, and the goal is to benefit 30,000 students, in a first phase.
To issue the pass, which benefits public school students aged between 6 and 15 years, enrolled up to the 9th grade, interested parents and guardians must present their Identity Card (BI) and that of the beneficiary student, with a photograph, as well as disburse the amount of one thousand kwanzas.
In the country's capital, social passes for the student category were issued at schools No. 4072 - Polytechnic Institute of Cacuaco, School No. 3119 - Technical Health Institute of Kalawenda (municipality of Viana), school No. 5143 (Centrality Vida Pacifica) and at the Juventude em Luta school (municipality of Luanda).
On the occasion, the director of the Youth in Struggle school, Miguel João, said that the process of delivering the tickets has a great meaning for students and parents, taking into account that it will minimize transport expenses.
In the province of Huíla, social passes will be issued from the 17th of this month in five schools in the municipality of Lubango, namely School Complex No. 1,828 (Eiva/Arimba), School of Educational Inclusion (June 15), as well as Schools No. 852 (11 November), no. 110 (27 March) and no. 1,320 (14 April). JAM/ART/DOJ
