ZANIS reports that the conference’s main agenda is national capacity building on child marriages and early pregnancies.
Senior Private Secretary to the First Lady Florence Chawelwa noted that the conference will tackle the devastating impact of child marriages on communities in both countries.
Ms. Chawelwa said Zambia’s First Lady was invited to the conference due to the enormous strides that her office and the Zambian government have put up in order to curb the vice.
She further observed that as a result of the efforts put in place to address the scourge in Zambia, the country has recorded a dramatic drop in the prevalence rates of child marriage from from 42% to 31%.
During the conference, Mrs. Lungu is expected to share experiences on approaches and responses to early marriage.
Zambia like any other African country is faced with the challenge of child marriage that is leading to early pregnancies in girls.
In July 2015, a quantitative study on child marriages in Zambia was conducted and due to the need for evidence based results, the study took on a more consultative form.
It was after this study that government developed its first ever five (5) year National Development Strategy on Ending Child Marriage whose goal is a further 40% reduction in child marriage by the year 2021.
Who is sponsoring her trip? She is not a civil servant nor is she a govt official, so in normal circumstances I don’t expect the govt to spend on her for this private trip.
Where is Mutinta Hakainde? She must be tired after practicing as first lady for 10 years.
This not news, someone goes ku order somba ku Mozambique ati bwa bwa bwa bwa, LT get serious iwe. Which pemba is this imwe, i know pemba Island, pemba in the south.
Ester expecting??
I thought heading was a bible verse.
The same people say child marriage is bad, and the same people are advising students not to cook for their boyfriends?
Let me get it straight. It’s OK to have a boyfriend you’re having sex with while you’re a student at the same time, but it’s not OK to get married and be a student at the same time?
Remember Nkandu Luo did not say you cannot have a boyfriend, she just said don’t cook for them, meaning it’s OK to have one.
They stated cooking is wrong, not if married. We must have read different articles.
The over forty thousand Kwacha spent yesterday by the First Lady Esther Lungu to feast hundreds of households in Misisi compound where beneficiaries received food packs, will be recovered by 400% overnight through Mozambique trip allowances. Malnutrition was yesterday reduced by 0.001% but today made worse. Yes, Zambia has recorded minimal drop in the prevalence rates of child marriages but not from 42% to 31%. How can it happen when the evil of dowry (Lobola) which pushes poor parents to sell their daughters is still rife? Zambia can’t claim to be champion of this scourge & start parading her First Lady as the hero. South Africa yes, which has already abolished lobola effective from January 2017 & men who paid have to be refunded, more money in their pockets.
She is learning from that crazy drunk rat husband of hers on how to travel irrelevantly. Here in leeds where I am visiting people are laughing at us on letting illegal lungu rule us.
What are you doing in LEEDS ? Visiting people?? hahahaha.. Just visiting , u mean you have nothing to do but visiting pipo hence wasting their time by c=paying attention /chatting with you, meanwhile you munch their food hahaha..this mentality in UPND awe