Luanda – The civil society should act more in favour of victims of landmines, and contribute to their integration into the labour market.

This point of view was defended this Saturday by the chairperson of the Angolan Association of Disabled Ex-soldiers (AMMIGA), Domingos Martins Ngola, who refered that the society must give the first step to drive the state into financing these projects.

 
According to the source, AMMIGA has been granting assistance within its possibilities to every ex-soldier victim of landmines, in regards to the rehabilitation of orthopaedic and professional training centres.

He affirmed that his association organises various activities to sensitise people about the dangers of landmines, by holding conferences, lecture and workshops.

Without revealing numbers, Domingos Ngola stressed that in the past years disabled landmine-victim ex-soldiers have been inserted in farming and fishing cooperatives, with view to contribute to the improvement of their living standards.

AMMIGA's main objective is to insert all landmine-victim ex-soldiers into the labour market.

 
AMMIGA controls about 30,000 ex-soldiers who are victims of landmines countrywide.

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