By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 Only 25 percent of all adult women in Zambia have reached secondary or higher level of education compared to 44.2 percent of their male counterparts; and drop-outs rates are still very high, too high, for girls, says United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Kanni Wignaraja. Wignaraja called for increased number of girls completing secondary school, and eventually proceeding to higher levels of tertiary education. Speaking during the Gender and Business-view from the top Breakfast Meeting, convened at the Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka, Wignaraja called for increased investment in girls and women’s...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 YOUTH Vision Zambia (YVZ) Executive Director Amos Mwale has called on financial lending institutions to provide other innovative resources to cater for the young people. Youth Vision wants the Zambian Government to heed pleas seeking introduction of a Youth Bank. Mr. Mwale said that the move by lending institutions to reduce the lending conditions was a welcome which needed to be complimented by introduction of innovative resources  targeted at young people. “Young people want to venture in business but stiff scared to borrow from these lending institutions as collateral conditionalities make...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 ZIMBA is one of the small but largely expanded villages in Mufulira District on the Copperbelt Province with so many activities happening in the community A Zimba community resident Doris Mwansa complained that the former Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) Government did not deliver to there expectation when it was still in power especially when it came to empowering vulnerable communities. “Our village is big and when one dies we have to keep that person till the day of burial. When people die they have to put them in the house...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 MANAGER Membership Advisory Services (MMAS) Fransis Njang’iru holds a view that men’s unhealthy choices families and the entire community. In an interview with the author in Lusaka, Zambia,  NJang’iru said health educators needed specific knowledge and skills for addressing men’s cultural beliefs. Njang’ru said gender specific skills and knowledge must be made integral to development of communication skills at national, regional, continental and global levels. “In Africa, there are many cultural barriers that prevent men from taking some key positive health decisions. Men are the key drivers of Sexually Transmitted Diseases...

By Derrick Sinjela published Monday 11th July 2011 THE Zambia Association of Children with Disabilities (ZACD) has noted that parents blessed with children born with disability face challenges of stigmatization and discrimination. According to ZACD Committee Member Astridah Kaunda said 50 percent of parents and guardians of children born with disabilities faced the challenging prospect of divorce as men blamed their wives for the disability of their child. “Parents and guardians of children born with disabilities face a lot of challenges like stigmatization and discrimination in society. In a home, a man blames a wife for having a child with...