Africa-Press – Angola. One thousand and 200 citizens, residing in the municipality of Icolo e Bengo, have benefited, since 2018, from the sustainable community project, in the village of Camizungo, visited yesterday by the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa.
Among the beneficiaries of the project, appreciated this Friday by the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, are 30 children welcomed by the orphanage Casa do Amor.
The project allowed for the installation of social equipment, such as a fountain, primary and secondary school, with a capacity for 650 students, a community kitchen with a capacity for more than 800 meals a day, a medical center with a capacity to care for 250 people a week.
There is also an events and training center, with capacity for up to 400 people, and a multi-sports center with a professional synthetic field, with changing room.
At the end of the visit, the Vice-President of the Republic stressed that the project has several aspects and can be used as a replica for other regions, as needed.
He referred that animal protein will be introduced in the project, to improve the community’s food and nutritional diet and direct greater support in learning, to improve the educational teaching process in the region.
According to Esperança da Costa, ministerial departments and local administrations should be present in this project.
The project started in 2018, in an initiative of the NGO ATOS, aiming to develop actions to transform the environment into a “self-sustaining community”, making it capable of placing its members as participants in the construction process.
The aim is also to make the community more participatory, inclusive and aware of its growth process, needs and challenges.
During the visit, Esperança da Costa interacted with the community, made up of more than eight hundred inhabitants, to learn about their reality.
The village of Camizungo is located in the commune of Catete, municipality of Icolo e Bengo, about 60 kilometers from the center of Luanda.
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