Luanda — Around 238 billion kwanzas have been used over the last five years of Angolan government to build 290 infrastructures as part of the implementation of the Integrated Plan for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM).

Most of the infrastructures are already in use by thousands of Angolans as part of the fight against poverty, which also involves bringing illiterate Angolan children, adolescents, youths and adults into the education and teaching system, as well as guaranteeing regular medical assistance and medicine in any part of the country.

The PIIM is a large and incisive pillar of the strategy to combat hunger and poverty because it allows for the achievement of generalised results in the short, medium and long term, benefiting thousands of Angolans.

For the PIIM, the government has prepared and made available a sum of two billion dollars, a resource from the Angolan Sovereign Fund.

With this money, infrastructures are being built from scratch, many of them primary in certain areas, such as schools, hospitals, medical centres and posts, water supply systems, electricity transmission lines, roads and basic services for the sustainability of communities are being guaranteed.

Allied to PIIM there is Kwenda, a cash transfer programme, which aims to guarantee social and economic assistance, through direct cash transfers to families in extreme poverty.