First Lady counsels women clubs
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By MUNAMBEZA MUWANEI –

 •FIRST Lady Esther Lungu  (right) joins in a dance on arrival in Choma during the Outreach Programme for people with special needs in Southern Province. Picture by THOMAS NSAMA

•FIRST Lady Esther Lungu (right) joins in a dance on arrival in Choma during the Outreach Programme for people with special needs in Southern Province. Picture by THOMAS NSAMA

FIRST Lady, Esther Lungu has urged women community clubs to utilise resources donated to them for their intended purpose.
Ms Lungu said in Choma’s Macha area that it was important for the clubs to progress from selling fritters and tomatoes to having piggeries and goat raring projects.
The First Lady, who is in Southern Province to meet with women clubs, said the clubs should make valuable budgets so that the business projects became self-sustaining.
“My concern is that when clubs receive funds let us plan so that we progress than always ending up selling tomatoes and fritters when the funds are finished,” Ms Lungu said.
Earlier, the First Lady paid a courtesy call on Chief Macha at his palace and told the traditional leader that she decided to form a foundation to help uplift the living standards of the women in the country.
Ms Lungu said her mission was to visit the women clubs and find ways on how she could assist the women clubs to progress.
Chief Macha appealed to the First Lady to find ways of marketing some of the products made by the women clubs at the Zambian Embassies abroad.
The traditional leader said there were a lot of crafts made by the various clubs but the problem is that they did not have any market.
“We have a lot of baskets, but nobody has come up to help market them, let us utilise our embassies and market some of these products,” he said.
He expressed concern on why his area had not been allocated a government clinic or school since the country’s independence.
“I am a bitter person because since 1964, Macha area has had no Government school or clinic, what have the people in Macha done wrong,” he said.
He hailed the First Lady on her Foundation saying women had gone through so much suffering and he also pledged to donate pigs to the women clubs, when the project embarks on setting up a piggery in the area.
The First Lady also took time to tour the piggery at Chief Macha’s palace and was by press time addressing some women in Chief Singani’s area.

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