Luena – Over 2,000 education staff in Moxico province have received isolation subsidies the government has made available, with the aim of alleviating the difficulties faced by professionals working in remote areas.
According to the head of the Planning, Statistics and Human Resources department of Education, Arlete Caiombo Vieira, the subsidies have benefited 1,36 teachers and 974 administrative staff, posted in type C and D municipalities, namely Bundas, Cameia, Camanongue, Léua, Luacano and Luchazes.
Speaking to ANGOP, Arlete Vieira said that all the primary schools located in these municipalities are already benefiting from the subsidies, with only the secondary schools still to come.
Arlete Vieira appealed to teachers posted in these municipalities who have not yet received the subsidies to remain calm, since “everything is being dealt with and at any moment they will have the subsidies in their accounts, with the appropriate backdating,” she said.
Isolation subsidies
The officials covered by the decree approving the isolation subsidies are entitled to professional and social incentives, namely isolation, installation and house rent allowances, designed to reward officials and administrative agents who provide services in locations that are difficult to access and considered isolated.
With these financial incentives, the government says it expects civil servants to be more organized and to provide quality services to the public in remote and hard-to-reach communities.
The Provincial Education Office in Moxico province manages 7,277 teachers spread across three education subsystems in the nine municipalities that make up this part of Angola. MT/TC/YD/AMP
