Africa-Press – Angola. More than 400 families affected by the rains and the overflow of the Dande River, in the province of Bengo, received, this Friday, a visit from the provincial governor, Maria Antónia Nelumba.
These are families from the Bula and Caboxa neighborhoods, in the municipality of Dande.
They were housed in the former “Bengo Hotel,” in the city of Caxito, and received food, used clothing, hygiene products and household utensils.
To help with the situation, a community kitchen was created to serve these families, especially children.
The provincial government is working to house this population in safer places (neighborhood 25), where another 200 people are already affected by the recent rains.
It is also collecting plates to take these families to safer places with drinking water and medical and medication assistance.
“Within a week, the conditions will be created to begin moving this population to neighborhood 25 where they will build their temporary and permanent houses as they receive sheets and other construction materials”, he said.
He stated that the government is working with the Civil Protection and Fire Service to raise awareness among the population to leave risk areas during rainy weather.
With the Ministry of Public Works, he said, the provincial government intends to work towards improving works to contain the advance of water.
The overflow of the Dande River affected 600 homes and more than 200 others were destroyed.
“Today the situation is calm because there was a reduction in the water level in the Mabubas Dam Reservoir, said the Provincial Commander of the Civil Protection and Fire Service in Bengo, Fire Commissioner Faustino Camões.
The overflow of the Dande River recorded this Thursday, in Caxito, caused the flooding of the Instituto Superior Politécnico do Bengo, the Bula and Caboxa neighborhoods, as well as restricting normal access to the Kimamuenho Teaching School and the Caboxa Penitentiary Establishment.
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