Africa-Press – Angola. The first phase of construction of the Academy of the National Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired of Angola (ANCAA), under construction since last September in the municipality of Viana, province of Luanda, will be completed in January 2024.
This infrastructure will be dedicated to the technical and professional training of people with visual and normal disabilities, within the framework of the social inclusion process.
It will have ten classrooms for computer science, music, arts and crafts courses, braille training, library, sports court, shopping area and amphitheater, as well as a house for activities of daily living and a clinic for the recovery of people. with visual impairment.
The information was provided, Wednesday, in this city, by the national vice-president of the ANCAA, Wilson Relvas, at the end of his two-day working visit to Huambo province, to maintain contact with the new local board of the institution, elected on the 4th of February.
He made it known that the works of the first phase of the project, which comprise the construction of ten classrooms, the house for daily activities and the clinic, are progressing at a good pace and register a degree of physical execution above 40 percent.
“With this dynamic, we believe that by January 2023, the construction works of the first phase of the project, which is being financed by the National Oil and Gas Agency (ANPG), will be completed and we will start with our actions, within of the established objectives”, he continued.
Also according to the source, the academy, which is being built in compliance with all accessibility procedures, will be a reference in the country and in Africa.
The vice-president referred that, in parallel with the actions that will be carried out in the future undertaking, ANCAA will continue with the works that have been carried out by the rehabilitation centers of Bengo, Cuanza Sul, Uige, Luanda, Malanje and Uige, embodied in the training of associates in information technology, literacy in Braille, guidance and mobility, as well as in the area of entrepreneurship.
Wilson Relvas, on the other hand, asked the Angolan Government to make it increasingly easier for people with visual impairments to access social and economic projects, with emphasis on micro-credit programs, with a view to their social insertion.
ANCAA, founded on February 1, 1992, is a social organization whose objective is to defend and promote the rights of visually impaired people.
It has representations in ten of the country’s 18 provinces, namely: Bengo, Bié, Cabinda, Cuanza Sul, Huambo, Luanda, Malanje, Namibe and Uíge, where it controls more than five thousand members, including blind and visually impaired people from birth and victims of war , road accidents, river plagues, incorrect use of drugs.
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