Africa-Press – Angola. The Social Action, Family and Gender Equality Office in Bengo province intends, in 2023, to train its staff and streamline its services to better monitor and approach families.
The director of the Provincial Office for Social Action, Family and Gender Equality, Isabel Lisboa, informed that the institution also wants greater dissemination on child labour, which has a tendency to grow, and to work on the dissemination of the General Labor Law.
Without advancing the number of families to be assisted this year, he added that in 2022 the cabinet assisted approximately six thousand families.
He pointed out the basic food basket, clothing, footwear and building materials as the main needs of families in the region.
As for the support to families that are in the municipalities, especially in the most remote areas, he underlined that the institution intends to work with non-governmental organizations that are in the country.
The official also took the opportunity to appeal to the need to start “deconstructing” in families the idea of waiting only for support from social action.
“We have to deconstruct this idea. There is a need for people to create working groups so that they can develop their activities and not live dependent ”, she underlined.
Here, he pointed out the effort that the Executive has made with regard to training young people, delivering kits for self-employment, underlining the need to create cooperatives and dedication to entrepreneurship so that people can start walking on their own.
On domestic violence, he said, in 2022 the office registered 489 complaints, of which there are three cases of sexual violence, 48 of patrimonial violence, 215 psychological, 105 verbal, 50 physical, 40 of family abandonment, 28 of evasion of paternity and 167 cases unidentified.
As for the elderly, despite the province having a home, the person in charge was satisfied with the fact that there were no abandoned elderly people in the region.
“The people of Bengo do not have the culture of abandoning the elderly”, he said.
The provisional shelter center for children has received abandoned or lost children with family conflicts who are sent to homes in Luanda due to the lack of conditions in the center to house children for a long time.
Isabel Lisboa informed that the Provincial Office for Social Action, Family and Gender Equality will continue to support families, especially in training, awareness and advice.
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