PANA Seed Company has donated 4.9 metric tones of Maize Seed, 700 Kilogrammes of Soya beans and vegetable seeds to the Maureen Mwanawasa Community Initiative (MMCI).
The Maureen Mwanawasa Community Initiative (MMCI) is also a recipient of a mini Tractor from Transport –AID Japan.
PANA Seed Managing Director William Rulher-Ford Smith said the donation is aimed at ensuring food security for the vulnerable in society.
Mr. Smith said the MMCI was the best vehicle to reach the needy in society because the organization has striven to reach all corners of the country
Speaking at the same function, Transport-Aid Japan Director Leigh Berg noted that Zambia has great potential in farming.
Mr. Berg noted that improved farming techniques can ensure both household and national food security.
Receiving the donation MMCI Executive Director Miriam Nkunika said the donation would help uplift the living standards of the vulnerable in the country, particularly women.
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Ms Nkunika said the farming inputs would be given to vulnerable women across the country.
And giving a vote of thanks on behalf of the beneficiaries, Chisamba Member of Parliament Moses Muteteka thanked PANA Seed and Transport –AID Japan for the gesture.
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Bushe nine nambla wanu???
atleast am also one of the first ones to blog this time. Bambi tabalala just trying to be first. this time mwashala ba fipwali!!!
Thanks for the donations but how long shall we keep surviving on hand outs?
Ba maureen mwanawasa dont stop your NGO just coz you are no longer first lady.
continue with the good work. God bless you
well done pana seed for donating
NEXT THING BANDAS WIFE WILL ALSO HIJACK THE SAME SYSTEM AFTER ALL MAUREEN COPIED FROM VERA AND MADE SURE VERA STOPPED EXISTING VERY SHAMEFUL ZAMBIAN FIRST LADIES HAVE NO IDEAS OF THEIR OWN OR OTHERWISE ALL THE SEEDS WILL BE DELIVERED TO CHIBOMBO AT HER RELATIVES FARMS AFTERALL THEREZ NO ACCOUNTABILITY
‘PANA Seed Company has donated 4.9 metric tones of Maize Seed, 700 Kilogrammes of Soya beans and vegetable seeds to the Maureen Mwanawasa Community Initiative (MMCI).’
I thought MMCI died a natural death. Anyhow, I wish the Initiative the very best even when MM is no longer Zambia’s first lady.
By the way, we want to hear from the new first lady.
i dont know how the new first lady will be doing,if this MMCI continues.maybe she should try something new coz if she forms the same as MMCI,it will be like competition and alot of eyebrows will be raised…maybe she should try to help the disabled and HIV patients.
But Maureen was using the state machinery to reach far flung areas and you lamp her with 4.9 metric tonnes of seed as though she still has the guts to distribute the heavy package. PANA has donated to Maureen and not the association as this donation will go to teka and palabana farms.
Country-men in todays post the ECZ has published a paper suppliment indicating Zambia’s elections profile.
Now there is no Lusaka appearing.
They have squeezed PF areas to look small
I thought the elections are over. why start cheating people now. this shows ECZ not inpartial. U have Copperbelt with the largest voters appearing smaller to kasempa, Kapirimposhi. My foot. disband ECZ.
Joe the Plumber want to spread wealth by making a publishing deal with small publishing companies on his incoming book .He said that is the best way of spreading wealth.Obama wants to increase taxes on the Rich and reduce taxes on working class Americans.That’s obama’s way of spreading wealth.May somebody tell me RB’s(Nyama soya’s) way of spreading wealth?Who is the socialist among Obama,Joe the plumber and RB?
This MMCI, we will disband it
By the way, does she still have access to Government machinery to help her transport such a big load? If she does then there should be something wrong somewhere.Can someone explain.
This MMCI was Maureen’s past time activity. I wonder weather she will have time to pass.
NMCI will die a natural death soon cause Thandiwe will form her organisation soon and all the donations will be going to her but anyway all the best to Maureen though i personally didnt like her behaviour when she was first lady.
PANA FORGET ABOUT MMCI IF YOU WANT TO GENUENELY DONATE JUST DONATE DIRECTLY TO THE NEED COZ WE KNOW WHO NEEDS SUCH BECAUSE MAUREEN WILL SIT ON ON THEM OR SELL THEM
PANA, ITS A GOOD GESTURE YOU HAVE DONE.BUT I FEEL SUCH INPUTS MUST NOT BE TRUSTED IN OTHER HANDS WHO CAN NOT DELIVER TO THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES.I KNOW MMCI CAN TRY BUT YOU HAVE THE CAPACITIES TO ASSIST EVEN TO DISTRIBUTE SUCH INPUTS TO VARIOUS NEED PEOPLE IN RURAL AREAS LIKE CHILONGA MISSION,NABWALYA,SHAG’OMBO,SIKONGO,KAPUTA,MWINILUNGA ETC.PLEASE LETS BUILD OUR COUNTRY THROUGH AGRICULTURE.I WISH I HAD A SMALL LAND TO BENEFIT FROM THIS DONATION.VIVA PANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The MMCI is registered charity that is run by professional people & the first lady is only founder & chairperson.The day to day operations have always been done by The Chief Executive of MMCI,Mrs Mirriam Nkunika who employs a very good team of professional people who have qualifications.Mrs Nkunika travels the world over to lobby donations to her association,no Zambian public funds have ever been channeled to MMCI.The late President Levy Mwanawasa could not have allowed loopholes that would have haunted him after retiring as President so don’t lie to yourselves that the former first lady run MMCI,don’t even compare it to now defunct Hope Foundation of the other former first lady Vera Chiluba
#19 you’ve spoken rather emotionally about this MMCI. Maureen is one lady that most of us Zambians cannot trust and therefore a huge donation such as the 4.9metric tones of maize to her organisation can raise eyebrows.like it or not MMCI will die a natural death because it was enjoying the status that came with Maureen’s former title.she is one “strong” widow.
#19 has decided to forget that Maureen is not the first lady but former.You seem to be one of the beneficiaries to these donations.Why have you become so emotional?
#20 Nothing emotional here,i am telling you facts,who doesn’t know most people have never liked Maureen.There is nothing like trust coz she doesn’t run the charity herself moreover MMCI has received & keeps receiving bigger donations than this 4.9 metric tonnes of maize & it goes to the right beneficiaries.Maureen is labelled a thief by people that have no clue about the Mwanawasa family,she may look & sound arrogant but Maureen or any if the staff at MMCI are not daft to steal what is donated because of repercussions involved.
#21 I am a British citizen based in the UK,MMCI is based in Zambia so how would i benefit from it,let’s not sink so low.You can insult or demonise Maureen Mwanawasa but she’s not the sort of person you label her.Hope foundation failed because it was run single handedly by one person who definately used public resources given to her by her former husband who to this day is still not a free man,we know how much Zambian public resources were looted by her husband & how Vera was dumped & her assets were taken from her when she fell out with her former husband.
MMCI took away the functions of Ministry of Community, now that its not headed by the 1st lady let the donations go straight to GRZ
Let’s keep her busy, people. Donate whatever you have to the former First Lady before she ends up like Vera running after toyboys.
Off topic guys.
Those in diaspora, someone explain to me why we have to be changing our passports? Mine is valid for another 6 yrs. I have permanent residence (PR) in it, if I have to get a new passport, then it means I have to get a new PR in the new passport. What a country our is!
Why not say those that are valid are valid until they expire? Britain changed their passport but all those who had old ones were told they still had to hold on to them until they expired.
God I am going to get a British passport!
Afrofussion you seem so imotional when people attack maureen what interest do you have in her for you to always standup for her.dont think you are the onlyone that knows her.we all know her and many people have experiences with her so your opinoin cant out stands the rest after all we all have our own opinions of her. if what you read hear chocks you then hang. if you cant stand what you read hear or cant control your imotions then blogg elsewhere. you defend so much with anger,hallo contribute dont comehere playing defender.maybe you are one of those that benefit the handouts now for your infor NO MORE THE LONG HAND IS CUT OFF.WA PYA.BULULU IN CRISIS.GET A LIFE, NO MORE DEPENDANCE ON PLOT 1
AFROFUSION, waluma nsimbi mwana. yanzanda. nikulimba manje.all crooks do register their bussiness and employ people so what does that stop them from doing illegal things? NO, after all if she was investigated she will be found with quite a number of matters to answered to. so dont be naive thinking she is so innocent. infor spreads and the very close people to her actually expose her those she doesnt treat fairly because of some bululus, just be gratefull that zambians have decided to sympathise with her due to her loss but if she makes one mistake ,you will see how she will be xposed, pa zed tabachelwa.so take it easy wiponta sana
Besides Mrs Nkunika is maureen’s elder sister so what you are saying about it being corruption free is nonsense. Those seeds will go to teka and the other farms they have. More over isn’t that the same Mrs Nkunika who was arrest at the airport trying to sneak out a bag full of dollars just before the official announcement of Levy’s death, a few days after Maureen travelled back to France from sorting out her affairs here in Zambia???
AFROFUSION, by the way she has houses in PHI which are in some relatives names but it was foundout as the electrical bills from zesco still apeared in her name as thats something they couldnt easy cover up.how those houses were aquired is unknown as we all know the peroject was supposed to help pipo have descent housing. you cant get a house at NHA as the list is long but they just call and all is done insnt thats abuse of power? how beta is it from corruption? how about the car hire which is usually awarded contracts everytime we have diplomats and big meetings such as SADC or AU meetings? there is so much my dear,if people chose to bring out these issue its amaising what more we may learn.
## 15 thats the best time for her to do community work since she has no husband to distract her and thats when ppl will see how committed she is unless she was jst using it for publicit
#27 maybe shez a kakubo herself hez is one of those sponsored by the late presdo or the wife Maureen who knows wako ni wako