| Twendi (2003-2006) |
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| A capacity building and poverty reduction programme with LARDEF |
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| LARDEF - community bakery, Moxico |
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LARDEF - father (disabled) and son, IGP beneficiaries in Moxico |
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| LARDEF taking ownership of a bakery kit (Angola) |
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| Twendi means ‘Let’s Go Together’ in Umbundu, one of Angola’s vernacular languages and signifies the encouragement and solidarity the project offered to disabled people, who had been forced to abandon their lands because of the violence of war. Its two main goals were |
- to strengthen and build the institutional capacity of the local partner
- to improve the social and economic condition of disabled and internally displaced people in Angola
The project started in Benguela where LARDEF set up its first provincial office. The Income Generating Programmes (IGPs) were first implemented in Chongoroi and Bolonguela, remote communities that had been chosen with the advice of Ministry of Social Assistance and Reintegration (MINSAR) as areas with significant populations of disabled people who had been displaced by war. The programme included providing skills or animal husbandry training, distribution of tools/kits, micro-credit, and follow-up. The positive impact of this initiative on the lives of the beneficiaries was remarkable.
In 2004 the project was extended to Moxico, a province that was in the frontline of the conflict until its very end in 2002. LARDEF set up a branch in the capital Luena, and targeted disabled people in the communities of Sangondo and Zôrro, on the outskirts of Luena, which was surrounded by 14 camps of displaced people, with an estimated population of 20,000.
There were 216 IGPs interventions which directly helped 170 disabled people and their families, a total of 992 people. Twendi is now completed, but similar activities are ongoing through the Tchilema and Avante programmes with same objectives. |
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