Mozambique: Civil documentation for internally displaced people from terrorist attacks – UNICEF allocates US$275,000 | Moz24h

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Mozambique: Civil documentation for internally displaced people from terrorist attacks – UNICEF allocates US$275,000 | Moz24h

4:37 CAT | 17 Dec 2020

Photo courtsy: UNICEF Mozambique

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is to help families who, due to the terrorist attacks, have lost identification documents, to obtain new full birth certificates and personal identification documents (Cédula Pessoal).

The assignment of new documents, which started on Tuesday at Metuge district headquarters with leaders of the province in attendance and is expected to take three months, will cost US$275,000 (20.5 million meticais).

The campaign in question will reissue birth certificates to IDPs from Muidumbe, Macomia, Mocimboa da Praia and Quissanga districts, where notary registration books and other documents were burned during terrorist incursions.

Secretary of State Armindo Ngunga, Governor Valige Tawabo and the UNICEF representative said they hoped that the birth certificate assignment campaign would reach a large percentage of the target group, and called for maximum participation on their part.

By Estácio Valoi

Foi lançado hoje uma campanha de registo de nascimento em Metuge, #CaboDelgado.
O UNICEF espera alcançar 80,000 pessoas deslocadas que perderam os seus documentos devido ao conflito armado. pic.twitter.com/5WRDgnG0Cb

— UNICEF Moçambique (@UNICEF_Moz) December 15, 2020

“Com esta campanha asseguramos os direitos das crianças e seus direitos legais, elas estarão legalmente documentadas, conforme estipulado na Constituição da República e Convenções internacionais ratificadas pelo governo” – Edith Morch-Binnema, UNICEF, em #CaboDelgado. pic.twitter.com/eCX0zqzrM8

— UNICEF Moçambique (@UNICEF_Moz) December 15, 2020