Gambos - The municipality of Gambos, in Southern Huila province, will have a Regional Centre for Agro-ecological Practices (CERPA) within 18 months, with funding from the state owned diamond company (ENDIAMA).
The infrastructure, to be installed in the Catholic Mission of Tyiepepe and budgeted at 1 .5 billion, kwanzas, is part of the diamond company's social responsibility and will be operationalised through the Fundação Brilhante, whose contractor is Angenol Construtora and the owner of the work is the Archdiocese of Lubango.
The project, whose foundation stone was laid on Friday 17th, will include a school with 13 classrooms, a medical centre, residences for priests and mothers, as well as for teachers, a water system and other infrastructure.
Speaking at the laying of the foundation stone, Bruno dos Santos, director general of the Brilhante Foundation, said that this was an initiative that he intended to replicate in other regions of the country, with a particular focus on the east, in the field of the diamond company's social responsibility.
‘We believe in the sustainability of the project and its actors, because in addition to the training component, it will add family farming issues that are adaptable to climate change, without neglecting environmental protection in all its dimensions,’ he said.
Regarding social action, the vicar-general of the Archdiocese of Lubango, Father Maurício Capembe, said that the Tyiepepe Mission is a project that will support the communities in this area with quality education for young people and children, as well as for the community itself, which is struggling with a lack of water.
The municipality of Gambos is 150 kilometres south of the city of Lubango. It is made up of the municipal centre, which corresponds to the city of Chiange, and Chibemba, which is home to 107,600 inhabitants. EM/MS/DAN/DOJ
