Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

Angola: Huambo - NGO Handicap Ends Assistance Programme for Ex-Soldiers

5 May 2008


Huambo — The French non governmental organisation Handicap Internacional, on Tuesday in Huambo City, will close its project of socio-economic integration of former soldiers and disabled people, announced Monday the co-ordinator of the programme, Anne Burtin.

She revealed that since the implementation of the project, from September 2005 to December 2007, Handicap Internacional assisted over 300 beneficiaries.

Anne Burtin said also that from February 2006 to August 2007 the programme assisted 80 demobilised soldiers and 70 disabled people, by donating them several types of goods.

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