Africa-Press – Angola. The vice-president of the MPLA guaranteed, on Friday (18th), in the city of Menongue, Cuando Cubango province, that the party will continue to invest heavily in the education of young people, so that they can effectively make their contribution to the country’s development.
Luísa Damião, who is in the city of Menongue to preside over the central event celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of JMPLA, referred that young people should be patriotic, active, dynamic and contribute to the search for solutions to the main problems that have affected the country.
“Our young people have, in fact, been responding to these demands, increasingly increasing their academic and professional level in order to provide answers to the various questions that Angola still faces”, he said.
Luísa Damião stated that JMPLA is a very important segment within the party structure, since it is a social organization concerned with the wishes and aspirations of young people across the country.
He referred that the central structures of the MPLA are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the JMPLA with young people, in order to convey a message of hope and activism for this youth that has been in various moments of the party’s trajectory.
“We come to tell the young people that we remain with them, concerned about their concerns and we reaffirm our commitment to continue working to solve their problems”, he pointed out.
Luísa Damião recalled that the Cuando Cubango militants made a great contribution to the MPLA’s victory in the August 24 elections, guaranteeing the party an absolute majority.
After arriving in the province, the vice-president of the party traveled to the municipality of Cuchi, where she visited the 40 farms project and the steel company that will soon start producing pig iron.
Concerns of young people
The lack of jobs, housing, technical-professional training, access to credit to boost self-employment and greater access to Education and Health were presented Thursday, in the city of Menongue, to the national secretary of JMPLA, Crispiniano dos Santos, as main concerns of young people in the province of Cuando Cubango.
During the meeting, concerns were also raised, such as the completion of works at the Menongue University Pole, to allow the implementation of courses in Medicine, Agricultural Engineering, Civil Construction, Telecommunications, Hydraulics and others, so that local young people contribute to the his knowledge in the development of Cuando Cubango.
The urgent completion of the Menongue Centrality and the boarding schools at the secondary health and agricultural institutes of Missombo, as well as the construction of housing units in the nine municipalities of Cuando Cubango and the subdivision of land for self-directed construction, as is the case in the other provinces of the country, they are part of the difficulties faced by young people.
In the meeting with different youth organizations, Crispiniano dos Santos was also presented with the problem of the lack of decent sports infrastructure to attend disputes at provincial and national levels, as well as the insufficient support for local sports associations and the lack of spaces cultural events, leisure for shows and conferences.
The youth also defended the completion of construction works on the National Road that connects the commune of Caiundo/Savate to Cattuitui, Cuangar/Calai to Dirico, to allow for the exchange of goods between Angola and Namibia, as well as free movement of people and goods in the municipalities in the interior of Cuando Cubango.
The young people asked for responsibility and seriousness in passing the message to higher bodies, with a view to solving the problems of the communities, looking at the province with the same priorities given to other regions of the country, among others.
Basic problems and yearnings
“We understand that it is necessary, in fact, to look at the real issues of youth. It is important that the Executive, provincial governments and municipal administrations who know in a real way the basic problems and desires of young people can fulfill them, materializing the MPLA program for the five-year period 2022-2027”, said Crispiniano dos Santos.
To this end, he said, young people have every right to be concerned about the problems that afflict them, dialoguing without noise and with perspective, in a loyal, fair and cohesive manner, together with related bodies, to find a common denominator for the problems .
At the end of the activity, Crispiniano dos Santos assured that the National Secretariat of JMPLA will convey the concerns of the young people of Cuando Cubango to the central structures, so that they can look at the province in a different way.
Attentive governor
Provincial Governor José Martins joined the concerns raised by the youth, adding that, despite everything, the Executive has been working to put an end to these problems.
As a result of this, he said that the Executive has taken over the resumption of construction works in the Centrality of Tucuve, of 14 buildings with a total of 294 apartments, including shops, whose completion will reduce the problem of the dream of owning a home.
“We hope that in this five-year period the funds will be made available to carry out the Menongue Centrality project and the distribution of land to allow each citizen at their level to build their homes”, he stressed.
He also pointed out the various projects that are being carried out, such as the expansion of the drinking water supply system and public lighting, the PAPE, which has supported the individual initiatives of young people, with the attribution of professional kits and micro-credits for the promotion of entrepreneurship, among others, aimed at improving the social conditions of the population in the region.
José Martins reaffirmed the local government’s commitment to work to resolve these and other situations, with greater emphasis on young people linked to the lack of roads, land and river transport, higher education, among others.
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