Luanda, 09/21 – Angolan minister of Family and Women Promotion, Cândida Celeste Friday advised, here, women of the country to adhere to literacy lessons so as to stop being illiterate and obtain intellectual capacity to better contribute for Angola’s development and improvement of the living conditions of the population.

The official made this appeal at the meeting held with the management board, teachers and students of the “Maria Mazzarello” School Nº 7066, located in Hoji Ya Henda ward (Cazenga district), with the Congregation of Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, in the light of a visit to that institution.

According the minister, the combat to illiteracy within the population and increasing the educational capacity of citizens, of women in particular, is one of the priorities of the Angolan government towards the country’s harmonious development, therefore the need for the to adhere to these lessons.

As to her, the Angolan government is pleased to collaborate in a school that always fought for the training of women in various fields of knowledge, mainly in the area of literacy, in order to better face the future, a fact that makes the Angolan executive proud, she stressed.

As she referred, this task carried out by the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco is very important for women, for the Family Ministry in particular, however, the country’s development depends in a certain manner on the intellectual and professional capacity of its citizens.

According to Cândida Celeste, the government of Angola considers positive the work executed by various social actors in the education field, chiefly in the literacy chapter, as task that now enables the country to have a large number of literate people in various sectors of life, she added.

By concluding, the Family minister, in the name of the Angolan government, guaranteed the commitment to continue working directly with social institutions in favour of improving the living conditions of the population.

On her turn, the director of the “Maria Lazzarello” School Nº 7066, the Italian Agnese Barzaghi, who was speaking in the name of the institution’s management board, promised to continue working out with zeal and dedication in order to achieve the results outlined by the project.

As to the director, human and social promotion is one of the tasks that the project of building schools with the education standard of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, specialised on the education of people based on principles that guide the Catholic Church.

The institution operates with children and dolescents included in the first grade educative reform and who were without immediate possibilities of studying, as well as, young and adult ladies, most of them hawkers and street vendors, distributed into three shifts.

Apart from literacy, the school also lectures courses of decoration, cooking and baking, with lessons assured by 18 teachers.

Maria Mazzarello School Nº 7066 that has nine classrooms, is located on Ngola Kiluanje Street, Hoji Ya Henda ward, in Cazenga district, and was founded in 2005. It teaches literacy lessons to 332 children and adolescents of both sexes and 280 women.