Africa-Press – Angola. The provincial director of the Local Development Institute (FAS), in Cuanza-Sul, Carolina Sanito, announced, in the city of Sumbe, that under the Kwenda program 117,402 families were registered, aiming at the promotion and financial inclusion of the most vulnerable people in communities.
Carolina Sanito said that of the number of families already registered by the Kwenda program, in the province of Cuanza-Sul, 64, 977 benefited from monetary transfers, with values in the order of more than four billion and 600 million kwanzas, which were delivered from directly, amounting to 14 percent of the overall amount made available.
“The process of monetary transfers is following a normal course, allowing the inclusion of disadvantaged families, as well as their insertion in income-generating activities”, he stressed.
Carolina Sanito recalled that the Kwenda programme, in Cuanza-Sul, is being implemented in the municipalities of Seles, Cassongue, Ebo, Quilenda and Cassongue, and in 12 communes, as well as in 955 neighbourhoods. Cassongue recorded an increasing number of beneficiary families, totaling 42, 297.
He assured that the beneficiaries’ quarterly income is 25,500 kwanzas and that they are delivered directly to the families. He underlined that, as it is an initiative of the Executive, Kwenda constitutes an instrument to support families in situations of extreme poverty and vulnerability, based on monetary social transfers, with allocation of income to families, productive inclusion, which has the to do with supporting the economic initiatives of families.
The director of FAS in Cuanza-Sul stated that the Kwenda program also includes the components of municipalization of social action, which focuses on providing social services closer to families, such as processing Identity Cards and Certificates, intermediation of conflicts of various kinds in families.
He made it known that among municipalization services, emphasis should be given to the creation of Integrated Social Action Centers (CASI), the reinforcement of the single social register, in the database with information on poverty in Angolan families.
The program is operated by FAS, a governmental agency, endowed with legal personality, financial and administrative autonomy that, in coordination with other programs to combat poverty, contributes to the promotion of the sustainable development of families.
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