Ondjiva - Members of the Koisans, Vátuas and Mukubais communities in the provinces of Cunene, Cuando Cubango, Huíla, Namibe and Moxico, will have basic social services, following the approval of the Plan for the Inclusion and Protection of the Rights of Ethnic Minority Groups.
The information was disclosed to ANGOP on Wednesday by the executive secretary of the National Council for Social Action, Ângelo Cambera, on the sidelines of the presentation of the plan to the administrative authorities of Cunene province.
According to the official, the plan for inclusion and protection of the rights of minority groups in Angola is the initiative of the head of the Executive Branch and aims to bring a range of services to the targeted communities.
The official said the plan, which is to be submitted to the Council of Ministers in the next 20 days, follows a diagnosis made of the vulnerable situation of these communities, which led to lines of action to be developed to better include them.
Ângelo Cambera explained that the plan contains a set of interventions in the areas of health, school inclusion, water, social protection, productive inclusion, small animal husbandry and land administration.
The official underlined that from the assessment carried out in Cunene, the state of vulnerability is “accentuated”, as there is a lack of all services for these groups, from education, health, registration, agriculture, among others, taking into account the very characteristics of the communities.
He said that the groups would benefit from agricultural inputs and the construction of income-generating programs to support their families, since from an economic point of view they don't have their own resources to meet their needs.
Ângelo Cambera pointed to the training of local leaders, taking into account the need for leaders who will encourage the communities to join the programs that the Executive may implement.
He explained that due to the dispersal of these groups, it will be necessary to group and resettle the families in a certain area, so as to make it easier for the government to support them.
The meeting also analyzed the support plan for the municipal children's project, conceived by the Ministry of Social Action, Family and Woman Promotion, for municipalities to start providing more concrete responses in relation to the protection and integral development of minors.
The “Child-Friendly Municipality Project” is recognition of the actions that municipalities have taken in favor of children's development, and has therefore called for everyone to be involved in their protection.
In Cunene, the Social Action Office monitors 3,590 members of the Koinsan community, spread across the municipalities of Cuanhama, with 1,552, Namacunde 524, Cuvelai 411, Ombadja 304 and 799 villagers living in Curoca.FI/LHE/SEC/DAN/AMP
