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First Lady donates to two Serenje clinics

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First Lady Thandiwe Banda, has donated blankets and assorted drugs worth K10 million to two clinics in Serenje District.

Mrs. Banda, who was represented by the Vice President’s wife, Ireen Kunda made the donation to Mailo and Mupepetwe clinics today.
Mrs. Kunda also donated K1 million to Busekelelo women’s club in chief Mailo’s area.

Speaking when she handed over the goods to the two clinics, Mrs. Kunda said the First Lady would have loved to make the donation herself but could not manage to travel to Serenje because of the President who recently underwent a knee operation in South Africa.

Mrs. Kunda said Mrs. Banda hoped the donation would go a long way in providing warmth to patients admitted to both clinics and hoped that the drugs would speed up their healing.

And receiving the donation, the in charge at Mailo clinic, Everisto Imasiku, thanked the first lady for the gesture.

Mr. Imasiku said while government was trying hard to provide everything required to improve health delivery, this was not easy hence the need for others to come in.

He said the donation would go a long way especially that the season was getting colder by the day and patients needed to cover themselves with warmer blankets.

“We did not expect this to happen. It is really something that we appreciate a lot and we promise to put the donation to good use for the community to benefit,” he said.

And speaking after the donation at Mupepetwe clinic, Mupepetwe ladies club chairperson, Penelope Chungu said the community was grateful for the donation adding that the less privileged would benefit from the blankets.

She said the gesture had encouraged the ladies to continue working hard to help the needy in the community.

Mrs. Chungu re-iterated her appeal to the ministers’ spouses to consider helping her club raise money for the construction of the mother’s shelter at the clinic.

In response, Mrs. Kunda assured the ladies at Mupepetwe that she would be back soon with funds for the mothers’ shelter because what was currently being used as mother’s shelter was not habitable.

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25 COMMENTS

  1. I hope it wasn’t to those “mobile clinics”. Thanks for not putting her Pic LT, until she learns to smile. God bless you

  2. #3 You have hit the nail on the head, it’s all about campaigning for her husband and the MMD. These are well known old tricks and we cannot be fooled.

  3. First lady that’s the way to go donate to more pipo even when you know deep down your heart that it is a campaign strategy. But anyway, take advantage of the situation now. nawao

  4. The MMD NEC’s unanimous endorsement of President RB Banda to be the sole MMD president candidate at their forthcoming convention and possibly the MMD’s presidential candidate in the 2011 presidential elections of the tripartite elections over the weekend has now kick started the campaign in Central Province by the first lady and Minister of Justice Vice President Goerge Kunda’s wife as they are now distributing “free” things to villagers.

    Please, PF-UPND PACT, pull up your socks and do us troubled Zambians the honours of taking over GRZ after the 2011 tripartite elections. To this end, I would love to read of Mrs president HH seen around the country distributing free things to villagers especially in Luapula and Nothern provinces.
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    Prevention is better than cure.

  5. Things like this should not happen any more. Public institutions should only budgeted allocations or donations from private well wishers or charities not polticians. These old ways to corrupt people and waste public money for personal gain by those in power have always harmed our country. We should get more cilvilised and mature in our political system. A lot of these monies are tax payer monies.

  6. Donations cause they know by-election are coming following the death of area mp of chitambo old tricks again

  7. Ba LT kaili ngamwalimfwantapo na picture yaba first lady.Give her some smile lessons.Doesn’t she know what they?They say you are not fully dressed until you wear a smile!

  8. I think we need a clause in the new Constitution of Zambia to block such acts of a first lady making donations together with wives of constitutional office bearer politicians. This will enable fair play in any election.

    As for now, I am asking president HH and PF leader Undereducate Sata MC to ask their wives to start seeking for money from welllwishers in the name of opposition political party leaders’ wives and then donate the money/things bought with it to other Zambians across the country.

    We need to have fair play in our political system.

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    Prevention is better than cure.

  9. This is what happens when you contribute without reading. She say she didn`t travel yet people are asking for her photograph.

  10. How much do first ladies make? If this is a donation, then am betting its coming out of her pocket not from government coffers!

  11. Thandie is trying to cushion her husband’s bad behavior. Does anybody know which Chitenge she was wearing? The pink one or the blue one with white lines as if she borrowed it from the Makishi dancers.
    Thandie – The Makishi dancers want their uniforms back!

  12. #15.lol.ati the makishi dancers want their uniforms back.kwena mwansekesha.She shud take fashion tips from beauty & fashion magazines,that shouldn’t be a hard thing to do.

  13. This is a good gesture by the firts lady. But, were these items donated in personal capacity, ie bought using own resources? We would not like the first lady to be donating government or state house property so that she is not entangled in corruption after 2011. She has to be aware of court cases surrounding Regina Mwanza Chiluba. In the past we have had the first ladies running donor organisations like MMCI and the Hope Foundation making donations as separate legal entities.
    So, madam Banda, take care- Do not say you were not warned.

  14. Campaign season has started early. Poor starving rural Zambians will again by bribed with blankets and bales of sugar by nyama soya!! I hope they pace themselves; it’s a long way yet to 2011.

  15. is this a donation of her personal money or its government money that she is trying to put her face onto? why do these people try to hoodwink the people that they are so generous? if we could do forensic audit (oops!! forensic audit takes time according to one misbegotten government official) we would see that the donated cash comes from government coffers. its the peoples’ money! stop fooling the people.

  16. one million kwacha? Get serious. Ten million? 1000 euros? the entire mrs head of state? for two clinics? mockery? i could donate that from my un-employment benefits…

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