Bailundo (Angola) – At least 19,000 needy families in central Huambo province are expected to benefit from the Social Protection Strengthening Programme (Kwenda), ANGOP learnt Tuesday.
The 19,000 families of the Lunje commune, Bailundo municipality, were registered a few days.
The “Kwenda” social protection reinforcement programme plans to assist, in the municipality of Bailundo, a total of 80,670 needy families.
The director of the Local Development Institute (FAS) of the province of Huambo, Chimuma de Oliveira, speaking to the press, said that Kwenda allowed the reduction of poverty rates in families, with the transfer, all three months, a total of 25,500 Kwanzas for each of them.
Chimuma de Oliveira said that the process has the support of the municipal administration of Bailundo and the residents' committee, since there are still difficulties in accessing certain places.
He called on families to make good use of the amount they will receive in the coming days, as it aims above all to promote self-sufficiency.
So far, he said, 13,375 needy families from the commune of Luvemba have been registered in the municipality of Bailundo, who are already benefiting from social cash transfers.
For his part, the communal administrator of Lunje, Adelino Cambuta, said that the action will help fight against poverty in the community, at a time when the most vulnerable families of the 164 villages of the locality have already been registered.
