Africa-Press – Angola. A total of 309,000 families, in vulnerable conditions, in the municipalities of Ecunha and Cachiungo, province of Huambo, will be covered in the second phase of the Program to Strengthen the Social Protection System “Kwenda”, starting in April.
The director of the Social Support Fund (FAS), in Huambo province, Chimuma de Oliveira, stressed yesterday that the process of electing Community and Health Development Agents (ADECOS) is currently underway, who will have the task of helping in raising awareness among families, mainly in clarifying the criteria for monetary transfers.
This transfer, explained the provincial official, will be possible, through the attribution of a multi-caixa card loaded, quarterly, with the value of 25,500 kwanzas, corresponding to 8,500 kwanzas per month.
The FAS provincial director stressed that the “Kwenda”, with cash transfers, is intended for the productive inclusion component, which consists of identifying income-generating activities, selected according to the specificity of the target group, with a view to empower families in a more sustainable way, increase financial capacity and purchasing power.
The director of FAS said that the program, since it was launched in Mungo municipality, has been contributing to the mitigation of the difficulties of many families and allowing them to develop, in the places where they live, a small business, with highlight the sale of corn and fruit.
The requirement for access to the program, detailed Chimuma de Oliveira, is based on a mapping and registration of families, in which it is necessary to certify the standard of living and living conditions, maintaining that the “Kwenda” arises to respond to a set of of social assistance and protection policies in favor of poor or vulnerable citizens and groups.
In Mungo and Londuimbali, municipalities where the first phase of the program was launched in Huambo, 56,379 families benefited from monetary transfers, the results of which he considered satisfactory, due to the fact that people expressed fear about the seriousness of the “Kwenda”, and it was necessary to carry out many awareness-raising talks with the communities.
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