Africa-Press – Angola. The Social Monetary Transfer Program (Kwenda) will finance, up to US$30,000, project initiatives that generate income for vulnerable families in the province of Cuanza Norte.
The funding is within the scope of the productive inclusion component of Kwenda, aimed at supporting production projects by agricultural cooperatives.
The aim is to make families no longer depend only on cash transfers for sustenance.
The information was provided to the press by the director of the Local Development Institute (FAS) in Cuanza Norte, Lourenço Matias, during the assessment of the survey carried out at the weekend in the municipalities of Golungo Alto and Ambaca.
The survey aimed to assess the impact of the program on the lives of families in these municipalities.
He clarified that FAS technicians are already carrying out a survey of agricultural cooperatives and projects likely to generate income to be supported.
The support will include financing for the purchase of machinery, agricultural inputs and other means of production.
Meanwhile, the assistant municipal administrator for the technical area and infrastructures of Ambaca, Nilton dos Santos, recognized the contribution of social transfers in increasing the income of citizens.
He said that Kwenda, together with the Integrated Program for Local Development and Combating Poverty. (PIDLCP) are helping to mitigate the basic needs of citizens, especially the elderly.
In addition to monetary transfers, this impact is still visible, through the construction of health infrastructure, education, water and basic sanitation, distribution of kits, professionals, zinc sheets, among other means.
The FAS has, for Cuanza Norte, a portfolio of 956 million and 862 thousand kwanzas for monetary transfers, having been distributed, until now, 405 million and 246 thousand, to a total of 17 thousand 155 families, in the municipalities of Quiculungo , Golungo Alto and Ambaca.
It plans to cover over 1,747 households in the municipality of Banga.
Kwenda is an Angolan Executive program valued at US$420 million, which aims to create policies to support the poorest and most vulnerable families in the country.
In addition to monetary social transfers, KWENDA also has the components of Productive Inclusion, Municipalization of Social Action, through the creation of Integrated Social Action Centers (CASI) and the Strengthening of the Single Social Register.
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