More than 3,000 vulnerable persons in Mkushi District have benefitted from Government facilitated Social Cash Transfer welfare support since the beginning of this year.
Mkushi District Social Welfare Officer (DSWO) Rachel Kolala says that 3,740 registered beneficiaries have benefitted from the bi-Monthly disbursements of this welfare program.
A total of K1,088,700 was disbursed towards paying out the beneficiaries for the first half of this year.
She said that the beneficiaries had been drawn from all the 70 Community Welfare Assistance Committees (CWACS) zones of this District.
In a related development, Mkushi District Welfare Assistance Committee (DWAC) Chairperson, Bishop Felix Bwalya had commended Government for being consistent in implementing the SCT program.
Bishop Bwalya pointed out that this type of welfare assistance is having positive impact in the efforts to cushion vulnerable households from poverty.
The clergyman said there was need to acknowledge that the impact of the COVID – 19 pandemic has negatively impacted on the social –economic wellbeing of all communities.
He added that under the prevailing COVID-19 situation, interventions such as the SCT are of great help in reducing poverty.
He said that it is gratifying that Government has been making frantic efforts to ease the impact of poverty by implementing other programs under the Social welfare department such as the Public Welfare Assistance Scheme(PWAS) education support.
Thanks to PF government
PLEASE PF KEEP GIVING >>>>>>>
PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DECIDED THEY HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF PF AND THEIR CORRUPT WAYS
100 Kwacha empowerment….really?
This is no empowerment but handouts and vote bribery …all these will cease after August as there is no money they are busy misappropriating funds from frontlines …they can not even procure vaccines or oxygen.
Says tarino who has never sent not even a single ngwee to his ugly poor relatives here in Zambia. My friend fuseke from here. Balekusunga abasungu uko and you are here saying fyo fyo
FORWARD IWE
Empowerment word is being misused. You can barely buy a bag of charcoal from the so called empowerment. Vote buying is the right term
Empowerment word is being misused. You can barely buy a bag of charcoal from the so called empowerment. Vote buying is the right term. $12 is empowerment? Your he’d aught to be examined to even utter those words. Pretty embarrassing.