First Lady Thandiwe Banda has urged fellow First Ladies in the Sub Sahara region to double their efforts in working towards bettering the lives of women and girls in the region.
Mrs. Banda noted that if First Ladies could harness the support of governments, individuals and many other stakeholders, the campaign for the improvement of women’s welfare would be unstoppable.[quote]
She was speaking during the 10th anniversary of the White Ribbon Alliance Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, today.
Mrs. Banda said there was need for the institutionalisaton of training of midwives in order for them to provide the necessary services for women.
She said First Ladies need to advocate for the development of low cost community interventions such as the development of Mama-Kits for mothers to use in home deliveries and infection prevention.
She said there was also need for developing innovative transportation schemes such as bicycle ambulances to help women reach health facilities from distant places.
Mrs. Banda said if First Ladies succeed in combining efforts, the results are potentially phenomenal, adding that building for women will mean building a lasting future for the world.
She further said there was need to ensure that safe motherhood was a right for women in the region and appealed for unity in the quest to save the lives of mothers and their children.
The First Lady said supervised deliveries is one of the interventions Zambia and other developing countries in the Sub Sahara region have instituted to stem the maternal mortality rate.
Mrs. Banda said the maternal mortality ratio in Zambia and in other sub Sahara Africa stands at 591 per 100, 000 live births.
She however observed that the distance to health facilities, the human resources crisis that the region faces and the limited number of midwives negate the gains that may have been achieved in the recent past.
“I’m speaking on behalf of the half a million mothers who die every year from just about the most avoidable and most preventable deaths of all. And for every death, 30 more suffer debilitating and painful injury from pregnancy and childbirth. This is unacceptable”, she said.
The First Lady said it was the duty of every government in the region to move the world to action against such avoidable tragedies.
Mrs. Banda said a mother’s survival is vital in ensuring the wellbeing of families and the community at large.
“So saving the life of the mothers and reducing maternal mortality is the most central of our gathering today. It is not peripheral, not an afterthought, and not the margins”, she said.
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This is a very good development, Zambia will be greatly appreciated.
Aba ba mayo nabo benda nga abalume.apa pene bafumine ku swaziland.ninshi nachibamona pa ITV ine chachimpapusha.
She looks stunning in that outfit. Go First lady go!
Ba first Lady that was a good speech,thumbs up to your speech writer. I’m not sure about putting a pregnant woman on a bicycle ambulance though but hey guess we have to start from somewhere even people in the stone age advanced as years went by. BTW just wondering was RBs marriage to Thandiwe arranged or was it love at first sight?
Michael Chilufya Sata, Hakainde Hichilema, Edith Nawakwi
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chinshi Thandiwe tale wamina pantu alelya bwino mu state house nomba alemoneka fye kwati afuma ku cifwani mupanga uyu mukashana banee
You have spoken well, I can see you are growing slowly. It just takes practcie soon you will be as good as any other, even close to Maureen standard. Keep the advocacy for women issues alive. Well done Thandiwe!
Its encouraging and I have that government listen to her concerns.
Thandi, give sometime to your hubby….
Thandiwe next time you get sick, try a bicycle ambulance and see how that will improve your life. Your mouth is big for nothing!
Women’s health is the core to improving women’s lives. Breast and cervical cancers are high prevalence in Zambia. AIDS is also the number one killer of women. We need more to be done in this regard.
Who is Thandiwe here? the one in blue or the one behind?
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Mrs first lady, what have you done for Zambian women ? Can someone enlighten us
Thumbs up to your speech writer, but you need to read those speeches to you husband not to the women who are already suffering. And please save our tax payers money by reducing on your trips and entertaining your husband at State House after a long day of talking bull$hit
#12 You are such an indisciplined felow who deserves not be called a Zambian.What perfume got to do with her speech?This type of jealous is stinking and can kill.If you think you have a more clever wife,with good natural odour stand for 2011 elections on PF platform and win ,then your good wife will attracting all the security and your support staff and sleeping with them.Leave young Thandi out your miseries she did not create them .She never asked you to go and sweep the streets of London with your degrees in your armpits.Enough is indeed enough.
#15 spot on man, its about time we leave inncoent people out of our own disappointed and unsatisfied selfish interests. The lady is in that position by virtue of the person she married. It is her luck let her enjoy the benefits. Criticise her on her speech not the position or the blessing that God has bestowed on her….you will never succeed with such an attitude. Give credit where it is due.
#10 Kakadoli.. LOL.wansekesha buti. Nkala ko serious naiwe. #11 and #12 find some other place blog you foul mouthed badly raised disgusting child. You do find vulagrity at times but not that uncouth stuff u splurred. It’s not Zambian to be so insolent to a woman- to a mother.
no 16 #17 mulesamba imwe mwe ndumba uko ku fyalo fya bene mwaya bana kamicheke imwe obviously you are rubbish bandas impotent relatives
Firstly, I can’t believe LT can allow delinquent bloggers to like #11,12 to continue spewing their posting their terrible insults against the First Lady like that. I’m very sure this is the same individual that has repeatedly insulted bloggers for no reason at all – is it so hard for the webmaster to take appropriate action and ban him for life?!! Remember that there are children accessing this site!
Coming to the lecture at hand by the First Lady, It’s one thing to appeal for help for the women and quite another to create good health facilities for them. What our women need is less speeches and more action.
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Okay mama Thandiwe, spring in action and get the work done in your country before preaching to your choir of first ladies in Dar. Start going to villages and ensure education is supported. Osa kamba kamba chabe.. sebenzani
spring into action
Can someone please teach this woman how to dress. She looks like a school girl.
Imwe mulekeni Thandiwe.. kano nga nimwe??
You read the first postings and you will soon realise Zambia comprises a mob! You steal from them, they will uploud “e bwaume”. You tell them “ifwabubi”, they will roar like lions “sosa, sosa ichalo chileumfwa”. It’s a nation of demented embaciles and complete stinking fools.
#26 Sebuloni Kamutanda. You are right. Zambians let alone Africans are mugs. They give plaudits to people who s t e a l from them and call them inshimbi.
Ka thandie nakakula! awe ba banda bakusha na bukote! am jst wondering how their love life is like…… can u imagine shrek on top of cinderella???
too many divorced and scorned women here
Guys lets avoid personalizing issues. If at all the first Lady has a big mouth thats not her fault and there is always a reason why God decided to create her like that. No one knows God’ s plans. By the way she is very young than most of us here talking rubish.
#12,13,19,21,29….have these few words for you…..”get your mind out of the gutter iwe”….it isnt Thandi’s fault that you are a possible employee of british bum cleaners. Do not offload your misery on others. Leave Thandi alone, as I said above, she never asked for presidency, it came to her…..let her enjoy the blessings God has granted her!
Thandi the women ur talking about dont even know how it feels to have 3 meals a day. Dont just talk, act and stop spending tax payers money moving from place to place.
This dude or broad called Jooste keeps emphasizing that its Thandi’s blessing to be married to the president and let her enjoy. Its such kind of illiteracy and low level thinking that has put Zambia where it is. Who told you that people go to State house to enjoy, and how can a sane person even support that. Leaders should work for you not enjoy your tax payers money. Please wake up and stand for what is right for you. By the way not everyone goes abroad to sweep the streets, some of us don’t, like for me i am a young aerospace engineer working in my field. Don’t find comfort in sweeping the streets of South Africa by calling every Zambian abroad a kapyanga.
#33 please follow our debate with one called divine vulva #12,13,19,21,29, then you will understand where the last sentiments came from. This has nothing to do with you my man. Its unfortunate his postings have been deleted you would have understood better.
Actions speak louder than words no matter how eloquent they sound…