Africa-Press – Angola. On Thursday (3), the Lions Club of Portugal delivered 40,000 books to the Moxico Library, in a ceremony held in Lisbon, with the presence of the Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the Angolan ambassador to that country. European, Carlos Alberto Fonseca.
The donation, part of the “Um Livro para Angola” program, is an ongoing project that in the future may cover other provinces in the country.
On the occasion, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stressed the importance of the act, stressing that it represented another step towards strengthening the “solid ties of deep fraternity” between the peoples of Angola and Portugal.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa took the opportunity to highlight the “magnificent relationship of friendship that he maintains with President João Lourenço and with the Angolans, stressing the fact that the dynamics between peoples is consolidated in small gestures, such as taking forward an initiative capable of giving 40 thousand books to the Moxico Library.
In turn, the ambassador of Angola to Portugal, Carlos Alberto Fonseca, highlighted the importance of the Lions Club initiative and underlined the excellence of the relations between the two countries, now reinforced with this gesture of “huge cultural and human significance”.
For the ambassador, culture and education are factors that unite peoples, which gain greater meaning when expressed by organizations truly interested in promoting bonds of friendship and collaboration.
The Lions Club of Portugal is an organization that promotes understanding between people, serves humanitarian causes and promotes work aimed at local communities.
The ceremony was attended by leaders of the Lions Club of Portugal, members of civil society, Angolan diplomats accredited in Portugal, the Finance delegate of the Moxico provincial government, António Manuel, and the president of the Young Environmentalists Association of Moxico, Neves Trip.
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