Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of State for the Social Area, Dalva Ringote, granted, this Monday, in Luanda, three audiences to members of civil society, with the aim of strengthening existing partnerships with the Executive in the Education and Health sectors.
The rector of the Catholic University of Angola (UCAN), Maria de Assunção, informed that it was a courtesy meeting where the creation of new synergies for partnership in the Health, Education and Family sectors was discussed.
“Partnership opportunities have arisen and we are going to enrich them with other valences, with regard to monitoring the different sectors that lack assistants and social educators”, said the Rector of UCAN, after leaving the meeting.
Maria de Assunção added that, annually, the Catholic University sends more than five hundred professionals to the job market.
“We intend to introduce the technical and ethical component, to analyze and see the phenomena that occur in society and the State is responsible for giving us the space to work better and share our consulting and advisory interests”, he said.
Dalva Ringote also received the president of the Forum of Churches in Angola, Luís Nguimbi, with whom he addressed the strengthening of relations between the Executive and the churches, especially with regard to the support they provide in raising awareness and mobilizing for basic sanitation, subject that the reverend considers a priority for the fight against diseases such as malaria.
Luís Nguimbi considers it possible to deal with basic sanitation with little financial resources, citing as an example the strategy used by Rwanda in this field.
“In Rwanda, churches worked in the streets with equipment provided by the Government. They worked in communities to evacuate garbage and destroy mosquito outbreaks, eliminating malaria. Why not do the same in our country?”, he questioned.
At the end of his mandate, Dom André Soares, bishop of the Anglican Church, stressed that the meeting served to present his farewell letter for being “a social partner of the Government, serving the people for 38 years, 17 of which as a bishop”. .
Dom André Soares said that he is going into retirement happy because the fight against malaria continues to be well fought by the churches, in several provinces with the support of the Executive.
“We are going to continue working, we are not going to sit idly by. Malaria is a disease that kills the population in our country, not only children from zero to five years old, but also adults”, he underlined.
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