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Over 800 Elderly Get Social Services Department Aid
Angola Press
July 5, 2010
Angola
A total of 8.950 elderly persons
in rural communities and retirement houses in central province of Kwanza
Sul are receiving regular assistance with several goods from the
provincial Department of the Ministry of Social Welfare, under the
Government’s “Home Basket” programme for vulnerable groups.
The information was released to Angop by the provincial director of the
sector, Manuel Macedo, who said the assistance consists of a basket of
foodstuffs.
According o the official, there are in the province 104,950 elderly
persons, 28,587 of whom are registered, according to information from the
district office of the Welfare Ministry.
According to Manuel Macedo, the province has two retirement houses
providing shelter for 34 elderly people.
The provincial department of the Welfare Ministry serves five vulnerable
groups that relay on assistance. They are those of the elderly, children,
people with disability, refugees and returnees.
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