2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
17th Edition
Kachamu Women's Club Cooperative In Mpika District Muchinga Province Funded.
Transforming Landscapes for Resilience and Development (TRALARD) has injected about K626,847.50 towards the Kachamu women's club Cooperative in Mpika District Muchinga Province.
The project is a brain child of 19 women and 3 male adults running a successful piggery, Maize, sunflower and soybeans production.
Green Economy and Environmental Permanent secretary John Msimuko has praised (TRALARD) members under Mpika Town Council for funding the project which has helped reduce poverty levels among vulnerable families.
Mr. Msimuko encouraged women to continue working extra hard adding that they are among the luckiest to be given such kind of money to start up vegetable production and piggery projects.
The Permanent secretary said Agriculture is one of the surest ways to end poverty in Zambia and women have set up an example of how they can contribute to development of the country through such projects.
He was speaking when he inspected the project, in company of Muchinga Province Permanent secretary Henry Mukungule, Mpika District Commissioner David Siame and Mpika Town Council Secretary Samuel Musenga among other senior Government officials.
Meanwhile TRALARD National Coordinator Chunga Chitembo was happy that Kachamu women's club Cooperative has set up a water reticulation system which will supply water into the Soyabeans field, maize, sunflower and piggery projects.
Ms Chitembo further said the water scheme will be of great benefit to the community in the area too.Earlier Kachamu women's club Cooperative Chairperson Lister Mulenga thanked the Government for giving them resources to start up a business which is helping them fend for their families.Ms. Mulenga explained that when the project started they only had five pigs which later multiplied to 58 pigs.She further said out of the 58 pigs, 19 were sold and raised about K15,600.
Meanwhile Ms Mulenga thanked officials from TRALARD for undergoing training on how to grow Soyabeans, maize, sunflower and venture piggery projects.
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