Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

Angola: Disabled Citizens Receive Motorcycles

Luanda — Thirty one citizens with different physical disabilities, controlled by the Cacuaco district department of the Ministry of Assistance and Social Welfare, on Friday receives three-wheeled motorcycles from the Provincial Government of Luanda (GPL).

The donation is part of the programme to open the 2008/2009 farming season, Rural Women Cycle and the World Food Day, marked on Thursday.

At the occasion, the provincial governor of Luanda, Francisca do Espírito Santo, said that this gesture meets the goals of the government on this social class that aims at reducing and integrating disabled persons into the country's development process, as well as begin solving the problems they face.

Francisca do Espírito Santo urged the beneficiaries to maintain well the means offered so as to obtain profit foreseeing their sustainability and stability of their families.

Still in Cacuaco district, the governor of Luanda, announced that the Ludi I, II sectors and the Muzondo locality in the northern area of Panguíla will receive by next December, 500 rural residences.

Apart from these means, the governor of Luanda also handed over tractors, ploughs and agricultural implements to the referred communities in the presence of the minister of Agriculture, Afonso Pedro Canga, of the administrator of Cacuaco and other provincial and central government officials.


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