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Kazonga calls for end to maize imports from Malawi

Kazonga calls for end to maize imports from Malawi
By Pride Bwalya
Tuesday October 30, 2007 [03:00]

GWEMBE district commissioner Dorothy Hamvula has commended the Glassco Foundation of Canada for donating spare parts for 300 boreholes and a computer all valued at US $10,000. During the handover of the spares and computer to the beneficiaries at Gwembe District Council in Munyumbwe last Friday by the chairman of the foundation Collin Glassco, Hamvula said the government was committed to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on provision of clean and safe water to all citizens.

She said that government counted on its co-operating partners and non-governmental organisations such as the Glassco Foundation to help bring about development to Zambians.

Hamvula also said that just like education services, there was need to take health services closer to families if some of the MDG’s were to be met in the district.

She appealed to Glassco Foundation to continue supporting Gwembe District not only in the provision of water but also in health and education sectors.

Glassco Foundation director Debbie Norman said that she was impressed with implementation of the foundation’s trachoma programme by the partners on the ground.

Norman said it was gratifying that a good number of boreholes had been drilled and sunk and was confident that the reaming ones would soon be covered in Gwembe District.

She said the donation of the spare parts for the boreholes and the computer was the commencement of another phase in the programme whose aim was to ensure sustainability of the water points.

She urged the beneficiaries to guard the boreholes jealously.

Labels: MAIZE, MALAWI

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