Kuito — The secretary of State for Rural Development, Filomena Delgado, on Thursday reaffirmed in Ringoma commune, district of Kamacupa, that the central government is working to improve the social conditions of the population that lives in rural areas.

The official made these declarations during the ceremony that marked the commemorations of the World Food Day and the World Rural Women's Day, on October 16 and 15, respectively.

Filomena Delgado said that the Angolan government is concerned with the improvement of the social conditions of families with low incomes and mainly of those living in rural areas.

He stressed the elaboration of various actions that aim at changing their social state, chiefly in the combat to hunger and misery within the communities in the near future.

According to her, these activities are based on developing projects linked to programmes of agricultural production, health assistance, education, electricity and water supply, sports activities, among others.

She also affirmed that the social situation of rural families might improve more, due to the fact that the Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, recently created the Secretariat of State for Rural Development within the new government, so as to outline policies of these communities.

At the moment, according to Filomena Delgado, the rural development programme is covering two communes of the district of Kamacupa, namely Ringoma and Umpulo, and is expected to be spread to other municipalities soon.

Aleixo Candambo, municipal administrator of Kamacupa, stressed the government's initiative for the implementation of the rural development programme that, according to him, is slowly changing the living conditions of the population of that locality.