For the second time, families benefiting from Kwenda (the monetary transfer program) in the village of Tchiumbo, municipality of Catchiungo, Huambo province, receive the money that has positively transformed their lives. Some invest in purchasing school materials, others in health, but many spend on agriculture or livestock raising.
The faces full of joy denounce the good that the first monetary transfer did to the populations of the commune of Tchiumbo, in the municipality of Catchiungo. For them, an important milestone in building a better life for their entire family, as they say they are properly applying the amounts received.
The recipient for the second time is Cipriana Cassinda, who remains happy to be one of the recipients and spared no effort to explain how she spent the first installment: “I had to overcome a health problem, which, thank God, worked out. What was left of the money I bought animals to resell and school supplies for my children,” she said. With another 66 thousand kwanzas in hand, this from the second installment, Cipriana plans to grow her business of buying, breeding and selling goats and pigs, some food products, as well as sending some money to her son who studies in the municipality of Bailundo.
There is no shortage of ideas to make this money grow among the people of Huambo, at least that is what our reporting team found, because together with Cipriana, on this second time that Kwenda people visit Catchiungo, we met the citizen Antonio Cunha. In the first installment, António Cunha bought a bag of fertilizer and agricultural seeds and, with that, began planting reindeer potatoes, garlic, corn and beans. Even with this work already done, the citizen in question says that