Government has secured funding from cooperating partners to pay beneficiaries of the Social Cash Transfer programme in 67 priority districts across the country.
Mwansabombwe District Social Welfare Officer Bridget Chola who disclosed the development during a sensitization meeting, said that soon all beneficiaries in Mwansabombwe will start getting their entitlements.
“The 67 districts implementing the Keeping Girls in School (KGS) and Supporting Women Livelihood (SWL) projects have been prioritized in order to complement social cash transfers, in order to achieve positive impact on the beneficiaries,” Ms Chola said.
She said providing a package of benefits through KGS, SWL and SCT to the poorest livelihoods is in line with government’s policy of ensuring enhanced impact and increasing the chances of households to come out of poverty.
Ms Chola added that the districts have been prioritized based on the poverty rates and size of social cash transfer caseloads among other factors.
She said beneficiaries who are already on the programme will receive the transfers due to them from January to December 2020.
“As you may be aware, these monies stopped coming since 2018 but this time around, government has sourced for funding to pay from January to December 2020 so all those still on the programme will receive the funds,” she said.
And District Administrative Officer Godfrey Nkandu who was part of the sensitization meetings encouraged the beneficiaries to put the money to good use.
“The funds have come at the right time when most of the beneficiaries are cultivating so they should utilize the monies prudently,” Mr Nkandu said.
Meanwhile Moses Chama who is currently benefiting from the programme thanked government for such empowerment programmes.
Great development…
Would it be unfair to assume that PF will not steal these funds as well?
The elderly, the orphans, the widows without employment or life skills, all these when assisted with social cash transfer will help many other people within their families
Is there anything which Zambia spends its own funds on apart from minister cars and traveling ?
This is the same country the president travels in a brand new jet. The is something wrong with a black man
We say thank you so much to our cooperating partners
Politicking will not take us any where just bring ideas to build our nation, that is a good thing for venerable people.
Every Zambian must be accountable to what they do with the national asserts either today or in the past including in the future, if we fail to do just that it means we are encouraging corruption if every ngwe is accounted for we shall even prosper as a nation.
If we think we should forget about past offenders then no one will accuse any future criminals I don’t like the saying by Zambians that they say that ( tulyemo ) . that is evil by that you are killing people whom you steal from and it always the poor in society who suffer most.
Every criminal these days want to hide in politics knowing that people will say it is political persecution, we know them that is how they protect the stolen wealth .