First Lady Thandiwe Banda says there was urgent need to reverse the high levels of unemployment, low health status and poor sanitation in order to achieve sustainable economic growth in Zambia.
Mrs. Banda said for the country to achieve this sustainable economic growth and development, partnerships for development should be encouraged.
She said this today when she officially launched a K3.4 billion Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) and Development Aid from People to People (DAPP), Child Aid Project in Nampundwe community in Mumbwa district of Central Province.
The project, which will run for an initial four years, seeks to empower communities for the development of children who are a key focus to development.
She expressed happiness that KCM had undertaken a comprehensive community development strategy that aims at addressing some constraints to development.
She further expressed gladness that KCM had recognized the value of children in development, adding that the importance of creating a healthy and conducive environment for the growth and development of a child cannot be over-emphasized.
Mrs. Banda said all households are key to the child development process and that the empowerment of communities is cardinal to ensuring efficient child development.
She commended KCM for its valuable work in communities such as its Roll Back Malaria Programme, HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness programmes, health, education, sport and several others that signify KCM’s commitment to the development of the country.
The First Lady further urged the Zambians to appreciate partnerships, saying much can be achieved if people worked in partnership with all sectors of the community in which they live and work.
Mrs. Banda said active community participation is essential for the success of social development programmes.
He said private sector led initiatives are a great stride towards securing the social and economic environment for children and the general populace at large.
She appealed to other companies in the country to emulate KCM by undertaking similar programmes for the common good of the nation.
And speaking earlier, KCM Human Resource Vice President Sophie Mutemba said corporate social responsibility should augment government efforts in achieving sustainable economic development through community development.
Ms. Mutemba said issues of health, sanitation, education and livelihood skills at household level have great impact on national development.
She said it was for this reason that KCM engaged DAPP as a development partner to empower communities with education, skills and material support for health, sustainable livelihood and income generation.
She said through the child aid project, KCM aims to reach out to a total of 10, 000 households in the selected pilot areas of Nampundwe and Chingola.
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What is this woman talikung about. What development can she talk about? Has she stopped getting her salary as a teacher? Remeber that dubious deal. Why is she telling the media and the community this instead of her husband. He needs it most. We know this. She must rather advise her husband who is not doing what she is saying. Or maybe advise Shikapwasha, Mulongoti and Kunda. These guys need this advise. We are tired of hearing uselss speeches
Without job, the recovery is an impostor…a phony…a fraud. Without jobs, people have no extra spending power.
No new jobs = no new income. No new income = no new sales. No new sales = no new profit = no new jobs.
BUSHE BA MAYO ABA NINSHI MUKULE STYLE THATS THE ONLY THING SHE KNOWS. AND THIS LADY IS VERY YOUNG BUT THE DRESSING IS ALWAYS LIKE A 70 YEAR OLD WOMAN. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET MARRIED TO A MAN TWICE YOUR AGE; THE REGRESSION CONFLICT WILL CATCH UP WITH HER LATER.
Madam address that to your old husband when he get back from his flying lessons, okey ! case closed.
for once i though she was encouraging women to get married to old men as they are the ones with good employment/ money like her dude RB.
Ule eba umulume ati lelo nshakupele yonse if you won’t do anything about unemployment. He’s the ultimate authority…no need to talk about it at workshops,launches etc. Inkama niku bedroom
always urging, or calling upon someone to do something who that person is i wonder… when u find him please let me know i also want to urge him/her.
“Sustainable development” This innocent sounding phrase came to carry with it the implication that there are too many people living and working in an environment of finite resources to permit “unsustainable” economic freedoms.
You sound better than your husband all the time. Is it age at play or what is it young lady?
Didn’t Mama Betty Kaunda, Vera Chiluba and Maureen Mwanawasa say theze same thingz? Thandie would do well to check the succesez and failurez of thoze three and see to it that she doez one better or differently this time around.
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This lady she surprises me! She has a formula to her husband’s problems and she doesn’t reveal it to her husband? I challenge he if she can tell her husband then this shall be a run around! The only other person who has the same winning formula says she is only going to reveal it in 2016!
FELLOW BLOGGERS HAVE YOU HEARD OF DEATHS/MURDERS IN MUFULIRA? ITS BELIEVED THAT THERE IS A PERSON WHO IS MAD BELIEVED TO BE A SOLDIER ARMED AND SHOOTING PIPO ON SIGHT. SO FAR IT IS SAID ABOUT FIVE BODIES DISCOVERED BY POLICE. LT PLEASE GET SOME DATA FROM OFFICER COMMANDING IN MUFULIRA ON +260 977 529095. WE NEED DATA/INFORMATION BOSSES
How about some pillow talk to RB about unemployment inside of playing to the gallery
Am I wrong in thinking the authority is the hubby?
Nothing much BUT far much better than the husband by far……..
Tell that to your husband nampala iwe!
This is an encouraging speech and job creating is the future of any nation.
Only hope you also advise your husband on these issues- or does he suffer from demensia? Keep it up madam Banda.
PSYCHOPATH, talk to your hubby……since you like wearing chitenge haven’t you heard of Batik, Bassam… Elo nama cornrow twanaka na yo. Bushe takwabako ama weave you can buy umu muma vacation muya? Just last month mwali ku Italy, New York bushe you didn’t see how abanenu ama first lady yamu fyalo yasotoka.
Thandie, can you please swap roles with your elderly housemate? You seem to be more reasonable.
The Standards of the ‘Top Ladies’ not represantative of the country, am sorry!!
Number 6 Sambman walipena!!!! Ha ha he he . I wish I could have a drink witcha!!!!
Who has never heard this before??? we are tired of this. Kapele fye umulume obe ku kati…..
WHEN ARE THE RESULTS FROM KASAMA COMING OUT. I HEAR PF IS LEADING IN KATESHI AND MISENGE, INCLUDING NEW TOWN.
Good speech Thandi
Talk is talk and that is quite cheap
Words come easy but promises are hard to keep
Gentlemen who has won the Kasama by elections?
MMD 3201 VOTES WHILE PF PACT 8793 SO FAR COUNTED. Q-FM 93.2. AT 01 HRS ZAMBIAN TIME
“Mr Bean, Lack of Jobs” or whatever pseudo fimi fimo you want to call yourself every now and then, people here do not care about a silly speech, what counts is practical things one does in life and not silly speeches from a lousy spinster married to a man old enough to be her grandfather and illegally drawing a salary she is not entitled to. Anyone who would have such a cow as a hero “ni chizende, onani onani chizende cha kumawa chili pa No 24”.
#28 it was a good speech in comparison to the others I have been reading from LT.. However, I do agree actions speak louder than words. Zambia needs more results from these projects.
Who wrote her speech? She needs to talk to her husband and tell him to stop flying around at tax payers expense. How can we have employment, when most companies have been sold to so-called investors? They are more like infestors.
good speach first lady
Fuda umulume wobe.
the man just drinks at state house thats why the wife can talk like that.they failed to keep monkeys at state house how can they rule us.levy never chased any animal so did chiluba and kaunda.now this one takwata no luse.he is worse than mugabe who chased white famers.how can you go and throw an animal in the bush when it was born at state house lived there all along at this time of the season?guy how are the results for the by election?
GBM of PF/UPND = 10,642, B. MUGALA of MMD = 4,682, UNIP candidate 183, Hamir INDEPENDENT = 167. New MP for KASAMA CENTRAL is GBM. Where is my hopeless brother Senior Citizen?