Friday, March 29, 2024

Social welfare department appeals for pupil sponsorship

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Ngabwe District Assistant Social Welfare Officer Kenneth Zimba says over 500 children in Ngabwe district lack financial help to go to school.

Mr Zimba says his department only managed to sponsor nine pupils owing  to inadequate funds.

He added that in 2015, only 22 pupils were sponsored and 2016 had no financial allocation to sponsor any pupil.

Mr Zimba further said his department has already received over 500 applicants for government sponsorship on the 2018 waiting list.

He told ZANIS in an interview that his office has,however, made a request to the ministry to look into the matter as educating the people, especially in rural areas, is key to national development.

15 COMMENTS

  1. This children are a sorry site.

    Scotland life is better than Zambia and I’m
    Laughing so hard right now.

    Thanks

    BB2014,2016

    • The travel cost by Mr Lungu can send most of these kids to school for free. If we are spending almost half a million dollars on presidential travel, then surely we can sponsor the kids. Our president loves to be in the air and can not delegate any of his ministers to attend. Right now as I write this, the president is out of the country.

  2. IT THE SAME PICTURE EVERYWHERE YOU GO IN THIS COUNTRY… BAMAMBALA SOLD OUR COUNTRY ASSETS AND POCKETED OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY.. NOW THEY ARE FILTHLY RICH…

  3. It’s people like Kenneth Zimba who have a heart for the people who are supposed to be in government not the thieves who are running Government today.

  4. The Donor Community should be pre-emptive and adopt some of these programs. They shouldn’t wait until we jump on boats and cross oceans to seek help.

  5. These Children are the Future of tommorow. Everything possible needs to be done so that they dont become a bigger problem to Society in the future. Skills Training shouldbe introduced early so that those who cant become Doctors or Engineers can automatically have a Plan B to fall back onto. I miss the days we received 1Litre of Milk and hard bread at primary school. Kanshi, twakwaleba ukulofwa. In higher institutions of learning, it was half chicken and a dish of rice, potatoes or of course Ubwali.

  6. We also need to learn something from the Chinese Curriculum which has made them Revolutionise their Economy. They normally come with 4 to 5 skills per person so they are multi skilled and multi purpose. They are also good at Project Management, managing projects even on a small Budget. Maybe we should also ask them for more Scholarships.

  7. We should seriously teach people to produce children when they are financially able to provide for them and not reproduce at will. Even animals have more sense than most people.

    • That comes with education, funny how vicious of a cycle this all is.

      Look up statistics of child bearing. People who are educated tend to bear much less children then uneducated people.

  8. @ Mushota ulimbwa saana. You have no sense of humour at all. Never forget where you came from because Africa made you and the DNA that you possess is entirely African. Be thankful to God instead of mocking your roots. Useless cunt!

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