Plans to set up the first-ever National Drug Rehabilitation and Skills Development Center at a cost of K250 million have advanced.
Vice President Mutale Nalumango, has disclosed that the centre which will be built and operated through a public private partnership, will offer medical care, psychological support, education, vocational training, and social reintegration.
She has explained that through vocational training, life-skills education, mentorship, and job placement, beneficiaries would be empowered not just to survive, but to reform to be responsible citizens.
Mrs Nalumango has explained that carpentry, agriculture, tailoring, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), plumbing, and entrepreneurship are among trades that will be offered at the center.
The Vice President said this during a stakeholders’ breakfast meeting convened to mobilise resources for the construction and operationalisation of the facility.
“For too long, rehabilitation in our country has been under-resourced, overly stigmatised, and treated as a peripheral concern. Public and private treatment facilities have been few, often overcrowded, and lacking the holistic support systems necessary for lasting recovery. It is for this reason, that in 2023, our government, under the able leadership of the President, Mr. Hakainde Hichilema directed that there be established a multi-facility rehabilitation centre to address the plight of persons struggling with drug dependency”, Mrs Nalumango said.
She has since called on the business community and other stakeholders in the country to help mobilise resources in order to ensure that President Hakainde Hichilema’s vision for the facility is actualised.
Speaking during the same meeting, Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Jack Mwiimbu has bemoaned the high levels of drug abuse in the country, further attributing it to the rise in street children and youth commonly known as Junkies.
The headline is a lie! These are just plans.
under the guise Bally will fix it ?
Like fuel shortage Loadshedding and corruption
It starts with planning, nothing bad about having a vision
Hatred for Bally will take you to an early grave. Zambians know the cause of our load shedding. We know that we are servicing a huge debt that that was gotten in the pretext of improving the very facilities that generate power and even alternative sources?Your people who once ruled us at one time defaulted in paying back the money they borrowed (external and internal debt) which even attracted penalties. They left the country bankrupt giving you people tantameni for doing nothing. What investment did they leave apart from liquidating the mines
Early grave yakuti? Do u know how old he is? He was Field Ruwe’s senior at secondary
Zambia breweries and most those indians manufacturing tugilili must be on top of contributing to the rehabilitation center… Alcohol still topping on substance abused list…just legalize it