In a motherly gesture, First Lady Esther Lungu feasted hundreds of households in Misisi compound where beneficiaries received food packs.
And Misisis community nutrition outreach programme director Dr Beatrice Amadi thanked the First Lady for donating food hampers to the outreach programme.
Mrs Lungu dished out the food packs through her Esther Lungu Foundation Trust ‘s Misisi community nutrition outreach programme valued over forty thousand Kwacha.
Two hundred households who are under the Misisi community nutrition outreach programme are expected to benefit from the donation.
Speaking during the handover ceremony held at St Lawrence Catholic Church in Lusaka, Mrs. Lungu said the fight against malnutrition should not be left to the ministry of health only.
Mrs. Lungu said malnutrition is a multi-sectoral issues which needs concerted effort in addressing the high cases of malnutrition.
She expressed optimism that with concerted effort childhood morality from malnutrition can be reduced in communities.
Mrs. Lungu said individuals and organisations have a key role to play in preventing and managing malnutrition.
The First Lady said her foundation decided to donate to the Misisi community nutrition outreach programme because of the many households who are benefiting from the outreach programme.
Mrs. Lungu said there is need to empower economically households which are adversely affected by nutrition.
She explained that empowering households affected by malnutrition is key in reducing poverty in communities.
Meanwhile the First Lady has urged mothers to eat locally available foods which highly rich in nutrition.
Mrs Lungu noted that indigenous foods if well prepared have the potential to eradicate malnutrition among the affected children.
And Misisis community nutrition outreach programme director Dr Beatrice Amadi thanked the First Lady for donating food hampers to the outreach programme.
Dr Amadi disclosed that the outreach programme is aimed at reducing high cases of malnutrition recorded in Misisi and Kuku compounds.
She further informed the First Lady that over 2000 children have been enrolled under the project which was launched in 2009.
Meanwhile speaking at the same function, Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention acting country director Margo Riggs said her organization is pleased to provide support to Misisis community nutrition outreach programme.
She pledged to continue rendering support to the outreach programme so that more people can benefit from the programme.
And Chawama area Member of Parliament Lawrence Sichalwe assured the First Lady that the donation will go a long way in curbing malnutrition in Kuku, Misisi and surrounding communities.
Let PF feed you. You know what to do in 2021!
I thought she cooked on firewood like a mother?
Anyway she need help troubled husband who is on outreach tours.
She looks ridiculous what that attire. I know it’s meant to look nice, but it looks gross and cheap.
Thanks
BB2014,16
lusaka times, where on earth does feast come into donations? please use correct english.
Wasting resources on people who should have been relocated to the villages!
These handouts are giving them false hope of better things to come yet just after this, day in day out they’ll go hungry again (no bread, beef, butter milk, tea), no access to electricity & clean water. They sleep in rum-shackles half submerged in waters dirty effluent with pit-latrine perched on raised stones that pose a danger of collapse by being swept away.
In the villages these people can be productive because access to farming land is not as difficulty as it is in Town. By the way even Mufumbwe, Manyinga and Kabompo are now connected to the national grid. So what the heck of being in town if you can’t afford life associated with urbanization?
The only contribution street vendors made in…
The only contribution street vendors made in Kitwe is to hide potholes with their merchandise and indirectly made Shoprite extend business hours to 20:00. I’m told Shoprite Kitwe now closes at 19:00 because of reduced business and security concerns due to absence of vendors.
Reintroduce KK’s “Go back to the land policy”.
Esther is obese while the people in the pic look so malnourished. It tells you a lot about how things are in animal farm
“She expressed optimism that with concerted effort childhood morality from malnutrition can be reduced in communities.”
Even if it’s called typographic error, but this one is bad.
No,no 1st Lady Esther Lungu you’re wrong on this.You’re treating the symptoms rather than treating the disease itself yet your husband is a major cause of the disease.
Eliminate corruption,create jobs, fine tune the economy ,fix schools and raise living standards so our folks won’t need food aid again.
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime,”
Oh yes!By the way where is Vera Chiluba hope foundation,Christine Kaseba ubumi chakutichakuti?Surely, even this so called Esther Lungu trust foudation will die a natural death after the husband leaves office.And why cant Mutinta Hichilema form one now?Your answer is as good as mine.I just have to relocate back to the village as there is too much circus in town.
@kumachacha ngoma
Spot on. This lot is more than just a circus, they are a bunch of crooks who ought to be in gaol.
Where are you suddenly getting gifts Chawama lady? Just corrupt Charities sponging off taxpayers funds and handing the same money back shamelessly in handouts to us …where is Vera Foundation and Mpundu Trust today? Look at Mrs Sata she has time now why dont she offer her medical services at UTH for free?
True,very true as we all know that the sources of all these donations are state coffers. If they are from a donor then we know what that donor wants in return! Government contracts and business. Why can’t they leave such activities to the Minister in charge of community development? How did the late Mama Betty Kaunda manage to live in state house for 27 years without such deceiving donations?
But Amadi is crooked she does not run the program
The person who runs it os Dr kankasa in the picture.
Taking advantage of the most vulnerable people in compounds. She should be teaching them how to fish than these one time gifts which won’t last. These people need jobs and good education to lift them off povert. At least least showed some concern by building some schools which is way better than food.