Luanda – A digital platform entitled Children´s Web Portal with the address www.portaldacrianca.gov.ao was released Thursday, in Luanda, by the National Children's Institute of (INAC).
The children's web portal aims to make known the services in favour of children in Angola, providing information on children’s shelter centres, child adoption procedures, location and family reunification, municipalization of child protection actions, birth registration, child abuse victims, among other services.
The initiative is intended to make the population aware about how to protect and ensure the rights of children, besides also functioning as a backing to SOS-Child, throughout the confidential phone number 15015 which was created to ensure protection and full development of children, free of charge and anonymous.
The release of the Portal marked the closing of the events in celebration of the childfren’s month, according to the director-general of INAC, Paulo Kalesi, who said that the portal will allow as well to register and enroll street children, orphans, among other functions.
While talking in the act, the secretary of State for Education, Pacheco Francisco, said that during the commemorations it was possible to create convergence among the institutions that play a role in the protection of children's rights, as well as to call attention on responsibility of all the socialization players for the education and transmission of moral and civic values of the child.
On his turn, the head of the department for prevention and protection from violence and child abuse, Bruno Pedro, revealed that the SOS-Child denouncing service, recorded in the first quarter of the year 2021, 1.376 child abuse cases, while in the same period of the present year 522 cases, which means that the articulated and coordinated actions from all the players in the child protection chain are having an effect.
The UNICEF representative in Angola, Ivan Yorevi, stated that violence against children is abnormal, unacceptable and everyone should get together to work in prevention.
Ivan Yorevi defends that prevention, working with information, counseling families, and reducing impunity are the keys to avoid violence, having reaffirmed UNICEF´s commitment to working with the Angolan authorities on these issues.
