Portugal government aids Angola's visually impaired

The performance of Angolan Government regarding aid and education to visually impaired people was Saturday praised, in Lisbon, by the national director of the department of assistance to the disabled of the Angolan Social Welfare Ministry (MINARS), Andre Zinga Knula.The official was speaking during a seminar on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Portuguese Association of Promotion of Employment for Visually Impaired People (APEDV), held Saturday in that city.

According to MINARS representative, the effort has been complemented by national social partners, with highlight to churches, institutions of community, humanitarian and solidarity, as well as other bilateral and multilateral international organisations involved in aid to development.Angola, he said, has currently 170.000 handicapped people controlled countrywide.

89.170 are under Government control, being six percent of them visually impaired.Angolan delegation to the seminar included specialists from to Ministries of Education, Youth and Sport and officials of the National Association of Aid to Visually Impaired People (ANADV).