Huambo – A project dubbed “Access to Potable Water in Angolan Rural Communities”, for Huambo and Bié provinces, was officially launched on Wednesday in Cachiungo Municipality.

The project, an initiative of the Non Governmental Organisation Development Workshop (DW) is focussed on opening 20 boreholes of potable water with manual pump, and it will be developed in 18 month in the municipalities of Cachiungo (Huambo) and Chingual (Bié).

The project will benefit more than ten thousand people, with the financing of USD 400. 000 made available by the oil company BP-Angola.

The programme aims at supporting communities in constructing boreholes, creating and providing community structures of water anagement and basic sanitation, through social mobilisation, improving hygiene quality, as well as reducing illness in the community.

The launching ceremony of the project was led by the vice governor of Huambo for economic sector, Henrique Barbosa, who praised the initiative, stressing that it will strengthen the "Water for All" project, underway in the country, which is allowing to provide quality drinkable water to the communities.