Africa-Press – Angola. The municipal administrator of Ombadja, in Cunene, Elizeth Mwamelungi, highlighted, this Thursday, the intervention of the Action for Rural Development and Environment (ADRA), in the actions of sustainable development of the communities.
Speaking at the 7th consultation meeting with the communities, the official said that ADRA in Cunene has made a great contribution in the search for ways for the sustainability of families.
He recognized that in the context of climate resilience, it is focused on the construction of cisterns, sidewalks, health education actions and on boosting agriculture and livestock, food and nutritional security for children.
Elizeth Kondjasili praised the initiative of the meeting with the aim of giving space to the population to expose their concerns, so that later they have solutions, in favor of the social well-being of citizens.
The director of ADRA in Cunene, Alice Peso, said that they hold this meeting to be aware of what the real needs of the population are, to be included in the priorities of the actions to be implemented.
Alice Peso made it known that this year, the organization is working on a public program to combat poverty, and will continue with the evaluation of the work carried out, to define others at the level of different locations in the region.
ADRA in Cunene began its intervention in 1996, in Manquete, Mucope commune, in the municipality of Ombadja, with the implementation of a project to support the development of communities in the fields of agriculture and education.
In 2006, as part of the implementation of the Mitigation of the Impact of HIV/AIDS project, funded by UNICEF, through which 500 families from Ombadja were supported through cash transfers.
Over the past five years, it has sought to mobilize resources to support the communities covered by its intervention in Cahama and Ombadja, in mitigating the effects of the drought, highlighting the construction of systems for capturing rainwater, the so-called sidewalk cisterns.
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