WOMEN MINISTRY SET UP COUNSELLING CENTRES IN MALANJE

August 12, 2003 – (Angola Press Agency - Luanda) The Provincial Management of Family and Women Promotion Ministry (Minfamu) will set up in the next days counselling centres in every district of Malanje city, with a view to reduce the cases of violence against women.

The local director of Minfamu, Emília Ventura, affirmed that the centres will also be established in Calandula, Cacuso and Cangandala municipalities, to sensitize the community about the fight against violence and to defend women rights.

Emília Ventura explained that the setting up of the centres is urgent because only in June and July of this year about 399 cases of domestic violence were reported in Malanje.

Currently the management of Minfamu in Malanje is working with six associations, among them the Angola's Women Organisation (OMA).

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