Lubango — A regional centre for the sheltering, education and social insertion of children, with the capacity for 125 kids, shall be built within a year in Lubango district, south Huíla province, in the light of the government's programme of social reintegration of disadvantaged minors.

Estimated at USD 28 million, the centre shall have three blocks with six classrooms each, an administrative area, dormitories, leisure area, multipurpose fields, library and will accommodate children as borders and 375 day students.

To be built at an area of 259,841 square metres, the centre will lodge children from the provinces of Huíla, Cunene, Namibe and Kuando Kubango, and shall be co-ordinated by the Provincial Department of Assistance and Social Welfare and of the National Children's Institute.

The institution shall lecture lessons from the primary education to the secondary level and courses of management and trade, agriculture, cattle-raising and fisheries, civil engineering, computing and civil education.

At the ceremony of entrusting the undertaking, the minister of Assistance and Social Welfare, João Baptista Kussumua said that the project is part of a vast programme of assistance to disadvantaged children.

According to the government official, in a first phase the government will built six regional centres and second will include provincial institutions to accommodate minors without family protection.