By BRIAN HATYOKA –

ZAMBIANS have been urged to embrace positive attitudes in all their endeavours to promote a better society.
Zambia Air Force (ZAF) air officer commanding (AOC) Samuel Liuwisha said Zambians deserved the very best, hence it was important for them to develop positive altitudes in life for the betterment of society.
Brigadier-General Liuwisha said there was need for citizens to be determined in ensuring that they improved the community they lived in.
He was speaking in Livingstone on Friday at ZAF Banquet Hall during a fundraising dinner hosted by ZAF Livingstone Airpower Ladies Club.
“As Zambians, we deserve the very best. We must leave the past behind and embrace a positive altitude in all our endeavours if we are to achieve a better community.
“We should be determined to ensure that we improve the community we live in. I believe without the support of all in the community, a better community cannot be attained but it shall only be far-fetched,” Gen Liuwisha said.
He said there was need to emulate what the club had done in empowering the less privileged people in the communities.
“Let’s support this noble cause our ladies are doing. Much can be achieved if we can adopt a new paradigm shift to resolving our current and future challenges as well as by promoting and maintaining a clean, healthy and safe environment in our community.
“Further, we are grateful that the Ministry of Health is helping us with the provision of quality healthcare and so we should stay healthy. Let us fear nothing, including HIV or cancer and any other diseases,” he said.
ZAF Livingstone Airpower Ladies Club chairperson, Milambo Moono, said the aim of the club was charity as well as unity and empowerment.
In 2013, the club embarked on a nursery school project and is running the school in the airport community.
Ms Moono said the Club was expected to conduct two charity works at Zambia Prisons female inmate visitation and renovating the mother’s shelter at the Batoka Hospital in Livingstone by bringing the shelter into habitable state.
“So far, the club has spent over K65,000 to bring the building to ring beam level. It is also running a poultry project whose proceeds help in the on-going nursery project,” Ms Moono said.