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Finland pledges continued support to Zambia

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The Embassy of Finland in Zambia has reiterated its continued cooperation with Zambia towards the reduction of poverty in the country.

Embassy Sector Adviser, Elizabeth Njobvu said the government of Finland has continued to offer technical and financial assistance in various sectors of the economy which include, agriculture, energy, mining, governance and education sectors, in order to improve the lives of people in Zambia.

She said her country values the relations that are shared between the two countries, and as such, will always stand ready to render assistance for the benefit of the two peoples.

Ms. Njobvu said this during a handover ceremony of a three roomed bulking centre to Caritus Zambia and farmers of Mutanda community in Kalumbila district in North-western Province, constructed at a cost of K70, 000.

She disclosed that the bulking centre has been constructed using money from the civil society environment fund phase two, a project aimed at supplementing government efforts to help farmers with storage.

Ms. Njobvu added that the embassy also plans to facilitate and link the bulking centre to companies that want to buy honey in large quantities.

Meanwhile, North-western Provincial Assistant Secretary, Beatrice Muyambango has commended the Finish Embassy for constructing the centre which she said will cut on transportation costs spent by farmers to take their produce to Solwezi district for sell.

Ms. Muyambango said the embassy and other stakeholders such as the church and civil society organisations are playing a major role in improving the lives of people in rural areas such as Mutanda.

She further urged the cooperative groups to take good care of the bulking centre in order to increase on productivity and efficiency in the province.

And speaking of behalf of farmers, Born Kalota thanked the Zambian and Finish governments for coming to their aid by implementing various agricultural projects which they are currently benefiting from.

Mr Kalota called on his fellow farmers to also follow the right procedure in accessing services at the bulking center.

4 COMMENTS

  1. Corruption scandals: Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco Loans Corruption scandals: Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco Loans

    As if begging and aid is something to be proud of… when are we going to end this perpetual poverty of being given freebies? Really why can’t we start feeding our own people and/or empowering them with education, health and jobs so they can feed themselves? We are much richer than Finland when it comes to natural resources… we should be ashamed of this as a nation. Really Zambia is a failed project under these selfish kawalalas masholi thieves!

    By the way Njobvu sounds Zambian, so how come she is Finnish, must be a ‘Diaspora’.

  2. Donors and foreigner funders know that their money is not safe when disbursed directly to government ministries because it will certainly be stolen as proved many times over in this PF thieving administration!! The monies are only safe when deployed through NGOs. This administration will choose to steal from itself and disadvantage the underprivileged. Thievery starts in State House, that’s how rotten the government is.

  3. It is sad that in 2018 we are proud of being given handouts of £70,000 and it even makes the news. We have a government that has bought a private plane for its head of state for $40 million, that same money would have been used to pay for those bulking centres.

    #freedomsikazweforpresident2026 aka the smiler

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