Caála - At least 17 drinking water collection systems have been built annually since 2021 in several rural communities in the municipality of Caála, central Huambo Province, in an initiative by the non-governmental organization World Vision Angola.
The information was provided to ANGOP, this Thursday, by the Word Vision operational director, Jorge Pires, who said that the program is dubbed “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene of Angola”, lasting five years, and currently only covers the municipality of Caála, Huambo Province.
He highlighted that the project - included in the 2021/2025 financial plan of the organization, with head-office in the United States of America, with a total cost of USD 1.4million - is contributing to improve the quality of life of the population of the municipality, with the construction, to date, of 250 small drinking water collection systems.
Jorge Pires explained that the 250 systems benefited more than 150 thousand people, of the 200 thousand inhabitants that he expects to reach by the end of 2025, in an action that aims to bring basic services closer to communities.
The director said that the “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene of Angola” project, in addition to facilitating access to the product, allows the reduction of the incidence of diseases caused by water sources, with emphasis on diarrheal diseases, malaria and other neglected diseases.
In terms of sanitation, the operations director of World Vision Angola said that the implementation of the project called “Total sanitation led by the community and school” is underway, based on a program launched in 2008 by the Ministry of the Environment.
Jorge Pires hopes that communities will take the lead in development processes, creating strategies to overcome them, despite the lack of financial resources, in most cases.
World Vision is an international non-governmental humanitarian aid organization, based on Christian principles, founded in 1950 by the American missionary Robert Pierce.
In Angola it was implemented in 1989, based on its current principles in the areas of development and emergency throughout the national territory.
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