2 nd Edition of July 2007
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FAS Spends Over USD One Million In Social projects
The Social Aid Fund (FAS) will invest this year more than one million American dollars in social impact projects, in the municipalities of Porto-Amboim and Amboim, in the central Kwanza Sul Province, as informed to ANGOP the institution`s deputy director, Santos Filipe Figueira.
In Porto-Amboim municipality FAS will invest in the construction of three schools, a health centre, five residences for nurses and teachers, plus eleven community latrines.
According to the official, the municipal development component implemented by FAS since 2003, consists in assisting local administration in improving their capacity for planning, application and management of local development plans, thus contributing to the success of the decentralisation process, in progress in the country.
In this ambit, he said, FAS has been implementing 44 projects in the municipalities of Sumbe, Amboim, Seles, Conda and Kilenda.
Some of the projects are the construction of six schools, three health centres, two professional training centres and latrines. Source: Angop