Camacupa - The Todos Unidos pela Primeira Infância Project (TUPI), All United for Early Childhood, intends to extend assistance and raise the support from three hundred to six hundred children aged between zero and six years, in the municipality of Camacupa, Bié Province, during the first half of the current year.
Running since 2019, this project currently benefits vulnerable families in the Chitângua region, in Camacupa, especially in access to identity documents, information on healthy nutrition and how to support early childhood.
It is an initiative of the Ministry of Education, in partnership with the sectors of Justice, Social Communication, Health, Interior, community leaders and the non-governmental organization World Vision.
According to the head of the education department of the province of Bié, Arlindo Longuenda, who promoted monitoring work for the project, the objective to follow is to extend it to the communes of Cuanza and Muinha.
The Camacupa municipal director of Education, Domingos Paulino Candundo, added that this project has facilitators and mobilizers from neighborhoods and villages, who will intensify work with families, in order to confine children in a certain areas.
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