Angola: Council Set to Improve Living Standards of Disabled People

Luanda — The creation and implementation of National Council of People with Disability will improve the living conditions of the handicapped, for integrating ministerial departments and associations that will jointly implement various social actions for the benefit of disabled people.

This was defended Tuesday by the head of Department, Control and Monitoring for Social Sphere of Former Combatants, Silva Lopes Etiambulo.

Delivering his speech at the first Plenary of National Council of People with Disability in Luanda, Silva Lopes Etiambulo said that the real situation of the handicapped in the country is not favourable yet but the government has been doing its best to improve the situation of this group of society.

According to official, the Executive approved the Presidential Decrees on the Policy and Protection Strategy for People with Disabilities with a view to ensuring the protection of disabled people.

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