Lubango — The NGO dubbed Action of Rural and Environmental Development (ADRA) is spending USD 300,000, since the year 2006, in programmes of intervention and rural development for the benefit of over 2,000 families of the provinces of Huíla and Cunene.

Speaking to ANGOP this Tuesday, in Luanda, the director of ADRA in Huíla province, Mariana Soma, said that the amount is part of a fund that the organisation has to support initiatives of groups that emerged and that wish to organise some activities in favour of development, not only rural, but also the reinforcement of their intervening capacities in the communities.

According to him, the programme will end next December and is based on projects of food security in view to supply some agricultural implements in order to diversify the farming activity of 2,800 families in Caluquembe locality and another of developing rural the communities of Gambos area, under the reinforcement of the capacities of institutions in the district.

Mariana Soma informed that a course on the impact of HIV/AIDS is underway in Ombandja district, southern Cunene province, and is benefitting about 500 families, under the same fund.

Another project is also underway in Lubango city, provincial capital, aimed at strengthening the capacity of civil society agents who are members of 56 small organisation and NGOs.

ADRA operates in Huíla province for more than 10 years and carries out activities aimed at supporting initiatives of groups that wish to organise some activities in favour of the rural development issues, as well as reinforcing their capacities.