Cahama Opens First Integrated Social Action Center

Cahama: The population of the municipality of Cahama, in the province of Cunene, now has access to the first Integrated Social Action Center (CASI), which aims to make social services more accessible. The newly rehabilitated and equipped infrastructure includes five offices for the coordinator and technicians, an identification room, family room, user room, and storage room, with a total cost of 95 million, 597 thousand 314 kwanzas and 63 cents. According to Angola Press News Agency, Eduardo Silunda, head of the Local Development Institute (FAS) in Cunene, highlighted that CASI will offer citizenship services, including issuing identity and personal ID cards, along with promoting activities of community development agents (ADECOS). The center's goal is to address families' complaints by organizing information related to the Kwenda program and municipalizing social action. The acting municipal administrator of Cahama, Rodrigues Chimuco, commended the FAS initiative as part of the National Strategy for the Mu nicipalization of Social Action. He emphasized that this will provide populations with access to social services and ensure humanized care. He further explained that the government aims to implement similar projects in communities to address issues and combat poverty. This center marks the third CASI to be inaugurated in the province under the Kwenda program, out of five planned. The first beneficiaries were the municipalities of Namacunde and Cuvelai, while Curoca and Ombadja are in the completion phase.