Zambia National Service (ZNS) Commandant Lieutenant Brigadier General Nathan Mulenga says the service will soon resume its programme of training street kids in life support skills.
Lieutenant Mulenga said the service has capacity to equip the street kids with life support skills that would help them engage in entrepreneurship ventures to support their livelihood.
“ Were are ready, the facilities are there, all we require is for you to say here are the youths then we can start training them, ” Lieutenant Mulenga said.
Speaking after touring the Zambia Instituted of Business and Studies and Industrial Practice in Kitwe yesterday, Lieutenant Mulenga said once the Service takes them up for training, the children would be responsible and productive people with various skills.
He however bemoaned the absence of an exit strategy for trained to engage in productive activities after being trained.
The ZNS chief noted that youths used to slip into the streets again after being trained due to lack of guidance on how they could start up business ventures in the past.
He suggested that the best way of incorporating them into society after training would be helping them to form cooperatives which could be funded as start- up capital for them.
Lieutenant Mulenga was responding to the request by Kitwe District Commissioner Binwell Mpundu for ZNS to help absorb street kids by taking them up for skills training.
And Kitwe District Commissioner Binwell Mpundu appreciated the efforts by ZNS of training youths in life support skills that included bricklaying, tailoring and carpentry among others.
Mr. Mpundu said taking the street kids for training at the ZNS camp was the best way of removing the youths from the streets and transforming them into productive citizens.
Mr. Mpundu has since embarked on a programme of feeding and proving street kids in Kitwe with basic needs such as clothing and shelter.
Munzi wapya!!!! Lungu you have to go time is up!! Northern, Luapula, Copperbelt, Western and Southern provinces are now UPND territories!! Police and soldiers are aware of this! Its not a Joke or scare mongering but the truth.
Pathetic Fools (PF) have nothing you now! stealing, curruption , fire tenders and many more we cannot tolerate any more nonsense.
These are the last kicks of the dying horse!!!
Munzi Wapya. There is nothing for you Lungu. Its time to go Yaluma is going and you will see many more resignations. Just know that copperbelt, Luapula, copperbelt, Western and Southern provinces are no go areas!
Pathetic Fools (PF) you are gone! Corruption pa munshi, corruption pamunshi, fire tenders, and many more stealing. You are gone.
kawalala Lungu, its time to go all the ministers will run away from you!!
Too much stealing and plundering national resources
Leave Edgar for a while.
ZNS and their Choma Eagles Football club are the best. They don’t pay much but their officers are not as alcoholic as the Nkwazi of Kanganja.
By the way on which ministry is ZNS, I wish the went to Community Development. Think about it.
Please, please, please, don’t teach the Street kids how to handle guns. They’ll be the most brutal armed robbers Zambia has ever seen. Due to a dysfunctional PF govt, there’s a flood of firearms in Zambia. Every kambwanga I know now has a ka-mulilo.
Mandatory national service was scrapped in the 80s due to violent armed robbers it produced.
ZNS is defence ministry.
@Maloza National Service did not end because of robberies. The robberies were due to the freedom fighters Zambia housed who were selling guns to mostly the DRC’s unemployed
The UNIP government went broke and couldn’t finance the ZNS project
how about teaching them agric skills, allocate them small plots and let them produce food for themselves.
exist strategy should be part of the plan that you’re implementing, if you don’t have that then what are you really doing? that’s a half arsed plan
think outside the box, why should it always be bricklaying, tailoring… carpentry
Ifyama plots no good. Unless you say ZNS opens more farms and employee every person out their. You open a banana farm with $1 million. From fore trucks it’s 42 huge farms.
At farms is not only to be walking around with a hoe. No. There driving trucks, mechanic, sprayers, harvesting, picking eggs, selling in farm stores. Working in offices.
Nomba imwe naba PF benu tamutontonkanya, you are selling people in slavery.
Thanks Mr President for that initiative
Thanka mr president help as
What ranks are these surely ba LT. There is no rank in Zambia like lieutenant brigadier general. And in the other sentence you complete reduce the man as a new entrant ati lieutenant.
Ya Ya Ya Ya! I’ve never heard of lieutenant brigadier general! Later they make him a lieutenant.
Ba LT are fantasisers. They report from their fertile imagination. They dreamt up the rank and threw it at their unknowing audience
Imwe ba LT be professional and seek clarification when quoting positions of our gallant men in uniform. The ZNS Commandant is a 3 star Lieutenant General and not a mare lieutenant. You should refer to him as General Mulenga and not lieutenant which is by far the lowest rank among commissioned officers. Kindly correct this anomaly.
Lieutenant General, not Lieutenant Brigadier General.
Then call him General Mulenga (as in s 3-star General) after that not Lieutenant Mulenga which is the lowest tank among commissioned Officers
Empowering people from the streets because all his friends and family members have taken good jobs .The poor cannot afford to attend university at UNZA because of Luo .
just dont teach them guns they will become robbers like the drop outs that went to ZNS in the Kaunda era. I think RR was a good socialist program
Empower youths with land and show them how to work it, they wont disappoint. Street kids on the other hand will simply end up selling that land and sniff the money in jenkem.
Rethink the move.
In my own opinion i think the move is just okay, and we should ask ourselves this question: if not the government then who? when we as a people we’ve failed to help these street kids. Mind you, not all these streets kids are in the streets because they wanted to but because of what life threw at them at their tender age like losing both parents and no relative wanting to take them in, and as a result most resorted in finding solace in the streets. We the people(relatives to the streets kids without parents) are to be blamed for this. So this move by ZNS, not only will it help these streets kids alone but even citizens as a whole in the sense that there will be no street kids roaming around town snatching people of their belonging or attacking anyone. Above all, we all deserve a second…
Comment:y cant u just recruits in all the forces u in power the whole youths rather than street Kidd’s alone, some of the youths are just sitted with there papers not just recruiting internal but external for everyone
Great initiative!