Africa-Press – Angola. More than 240 families who recently lost their homes as a result of the heavy rains that fell on the municipality of Léua, province of Moxico, last April, started yesterday to benefit from zinc sheets as part of the assistance provided by the Government.
The heavy rains recorded in that municipality, which is 62 kilometers from the city of Luena, the capital of the province, had caused the destruction of 88 homes in a precarious state in the neighborhoods Antigos Combatentes, Musseque, Brito, Chafinda and Mupepe.
The provincial governor of Moxico, Ernesto Muangala, started the process of delivering these materials, as part of a working visit to the region.
Families began to benefit from 10 sheets of plates each, for the reconstruction of homes, in an action promoted by the Municipal Administration of Léua, within the framework of the Integrated Program for Local Development and Combating Poverty (PIDLCP).
On the occasion, 89 victims also benefited from agricultural inputs and inputs, such as seeds, fertilizers, hoes, machetes, motor pumps and other essential means for the practice of agriculture.
According to data from the Civil Protection and Fire Services, During the first quarter of this year, more than a thousand people were left homeless throughout the province, as a result of the destruction of 236 homes caused by heavy rains, also causing one death and four injured, as well as the destruction of three churches, with the municipalities of Moxico (headquarters) and Bundas being the most affected.
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