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Monthly Archives: August 2022

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  • August 31 2022
  • Tita Sakala

NDOLA-LUSAKA DISABILITY FUNDRAISING, AWARENESS WALK ACCOMPLISHED

NDOLA-LUSAKA DISABILITY FUNDRAISING, AWARENESS WALK ACCOMPLISHED A physically challenged Cleric Moses Ngalasiya of Ndola who embarked on a 30-day walk from Ndola to Lusaka has arrived. Reverend Ngalasiya, in company of friends and family covered over 320 kilometres in 22 days to raise money to empower and buy mobility devices for Persons with Disabilities. The […]

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  • August 29 2022
  • Farai Muzungaile

QUALITY SOCIAL PROTECTION A CALL FOR AFRICA

Minister of Community Development and Social Services, Ms. Doreen Mwamba has underscored the need for African countries to rise up, and end poverty and vulnerability on the continent, through quality social protection. She was speaking today when she officiated at the workshop sponsored by African Union and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, to promote rights-based legal frameworks […]

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  • August 24 2022
  • Farai Muzungaile

MINISTRY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL SERVICES, CHRESO, DISCUSS DEVELOPMENT

Minister of Community Development and Social Services, Ms. Doreen Mwamba has today met with Chreso Ministries, to discuss wide ranging issues regarding social protection. The Minister highlighted the need for collaboration, considering that the mandate of the Ministry and that of Chreso of taking care of the vulnerable, is similar. She therefore directed that the […]

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  • August 24 2022
  • Farai Muzungaile

ZAMBIA, KOREA PARTNERS TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT

The Zambian government through the Ministry Of Community Development and Social Services has conceptualized a model, in partnership with the Korean Government that seeks to enhance community development, in a bid to reduce poverty and change lives. The Saemaul Undong (SMU) concept is a strategy to accelerate the development of communities especially in the rural […]

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  • August 24 2022
  • Farai Muzungaile

MEET BEAUTY THE ´GOAL GETTER´, KGS BENEFICIARY FROM LUFWANYAMA

“An opportunity to education is the best gift that I have ever received”, say Beauty Chitengi 19, a beneficiary of the Keeping Girls in School (KGS) Programme from Lufwanyama District. Beauty, recalls how she almost dropped out of school and her future looked uncertain in 2018, when she was in Grade 10. Her mother who […]

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  • August 24 2022
  • Farai Muzungaile

CHIEFTANESS SHIMUKUNAMI PERSONALLY COMMITS TO MONITOR SOCIAL CASH TRANSFER IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS

Chieftaness Shimukunami of Lufwanyama has personally committed to monitor the implementation of social protection programmes, to ensure government’s efforts of improving the welfare of the people is not done in vain. She notes that government is doing everything possible to uplift the living standards of the vulnerable, but sustaining that agenda requires strict monitoring, so […]

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  • August 24 2022
  • Farai Muzungaile

CHIEF CHIWALA HAPPY WITH SUCCESS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGRAMMES IN THE COUNTRY

His Royal Highness, Chief Chiwala of the Lamba Speaking people of Ndola says he is impressed with the progress made with regards to social protection programming in the country. And the traditional leader has expressed interest to collaborate with the Ministry in order to enhance youth empowerment programmes which are currently running under his Chiefdom. […]

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  • August 19 2022
  • Tita Sakala

NEEDS OF THE GIRL CHILD TO BE PRIORITISED

The Ministry of Community Development and Social Services in collaboration with African Child Policy Forum is currently holding the National Summit on Girls in Zambia. The Summit is taking stock of progress, good practices, challenges and opportunities, with emphasis on reinforcing multi-sectoral collaboration to advance girls’ rights and wellbeing. The three-day summit aims at strengthening […]

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  • August 11 2022
  • Farai Muzungaile

COMMUNICATIONS ADVOCACY STRATEGY, NUTRITION SENSITIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGRAMMES GUIDELINES AND SINGLE WINDOW INITIATIVE IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES LAUNCHED

Ministry of Community Development and Social Services Minister Honourable Doreen Mwamba has observed that notable progress is been made in Zambia`s Social Protection Sector. Ms. Mwamba however, noted that despite the scale up of programmes such as the Social Cash Transfer and other Social Protection Interventions, very little was known about them. She called for […]

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  • August 10 2022
  • Tita Sakala

MINISTER AND INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER DISCUSS DEVELOPMENT

MINISTER AND INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER DISCUSS DEVELOPMENT Minister of Community Development and Social Services, Ms. Doreen Mwamba and Indian High Commissioner Mr. Ashok Kumar, have today conferred to share ideas of mutual interest on the welfare of the vulnerable in Zambia. This was during a courtesy call on the Minister, where his Excellency, Mr. Kumar […]

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