12 May 2008
Luanda — A cholera prevention and fighting programme will be implemented as from the second fortnight of May this year in southern Cunene and central Kwanza Sul provinces, by Angola Red Cross (CVA).
The information was released in Luanda by CVA national director for cooperation and development, Leonardo Bongo, who told Angop the programme will consists of workshops on sanitary education and care for the prevention of the disease.
The project will also include distribution of hypo-chloride for purification of water, expecting to benefit over 1,000 families, mainly in the rural areas of both provinces.
The European Union funded programme amounting to 900,000 Euros allocated to the German Red Cross, is to implemented by Angola Red Cross.
CVA, in partnership with the diamond company BHP conducted a cycle of workshops on April 25 this year, focusing on how to fight and prevent the disease. The organisation also distributed mosquito-nets impregnated with insecticide to 300 people in northeastern Lunda Sul province.
Over the last three months, CVA has built in Cunene province 200 latrines in the sheltering camps of Feira Popular and Okapale-I, in Santa Clara locality, accommodating about 8,000 people left homeless by the floods that hit the region recently.
The construction of the latrines are part of the province's cholera fighting programme.
This was carried out by 49 volunteer activists that also conducted people awareness campaigns on how to prevent cholera.
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