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Strong families key to national development – First lady

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First Lady Dr Christine Kaseba

FIRST Lady Christine Kaseba has said the campaign for zero-tolerance against gender-based violence, corruption, poverty and moral degradation in society should start at family level.

Dr Kaseba has also called for collective empowerment of needy families if the country is to reduce poverty and attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Speaking during the launch of the Families Are Nations (FAN) project in Lusaka yesterday, Dr Kaseba said strong family units were important for national development.

“A family, described as a social group consisting of parents and children, is a unit of socialisation and a basic institution which is key to the structure of society.

“The corporate world needs well-established families to excel, and our Government needs a strong family partnership in creating conducive communities within which to deliver effective national development and governance,” she said.

Dr Kaseba said the family should always remain the major cornerstone of continued social and corporate manifestation in society for the country to effectively manage human and natural resources.

She said efforts to end new HIV/AIDS infections should be effectively applied at family unit level.

“For peace to exist in Zambia, there should be peace at home, within the individual and within the family,” she said.

And Minister of Local Government, Early Child Education and Environmental Protection, Nkandu Luo said the Government would restructure the education system by bringing back the welfare school that would provide adult learning.

Professor Luo commended FAN for incorporating adult literacy in programmes as that would broaden the capacity of the learners, who were mostly women.

And FAN president, Judith Mwila said her organisation was currently addressing some vices that had affected the family unit.

She said FAN was there to fight vices such as corruption and illiteracy, especially among women.
[Times of Zambia]

8 COMMENTS

  1. Good one mam…….u stood by MSC even when he mistreated u….U are a good example of stong family ties……Explain more of your experiences to these young wanabe wivies what it takes……..Good luck Lady Christine Kaseba

  2. Good Idea First Lady, you are a star!! Please use your experience and knowledge to teach the nation, but tell them to stop bleeding too much like pigs when they can’t afford to look after the children! Zambia’s poluation growth is increasing by more than 3% every year while the GDP is slowing down! Is this not a sign of future poverty? IMF and world bank reports have advised that we will get to 20 million soon. So how do we survive with poor sanitation, lack of water, housing, food and shelter , to numerous to mention!!! Let us look at both sides of the coin in order to develop the nation. Tell MC Sata to get to work, and i mean serious work.

  3. Well Chilufya knows how to start families! How many has he got besides the ones from Bishop Mpundu’s sisters, that Inutu woman, the two wives he had prior to Kaseba and the one from Kaseba herself? This lecture coming from a family where one of their sons was dead for a number of days in their home before his body was discovered!

  4. She is a beam of light. Always smiling! I have never known her to be angry but always happy in herself and she infects those around her. Quiet the opposite of the Presido. He looks grumpy all the time. God bless the first family.

  5. LT she is first Lady dr. Christine Kaseba remember that. WOW!  our first lady is more educated than lawyer first lady Michelle Obama.

  6. @ no# 3, Mweol those are wise words. Sex education should be in government, private and church schools. Markets and taverns also. Condom use and birth control for married couples a must as of yesterday. Am a Christian and still I believe broke people should only have one or two children. 

    @ dr. Luo thanks for bringing welfare schools back, literacy is a gain in the fight against poverty.

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