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[godfrida mweni]

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RESIDENTS of Lusaka will in two months’ time be happy with their local authority to discover that there is free Wi-Fi in all public places.
The free service is courtesy of the Lusaka City Council (LCC).

Lusaka Town Clerk Alex Mwansa yesterday told the Zambia Daily Mail that the city council has already signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a foreign company to roll out the free internet service.
Wi-Fi or WiFi is a technology for wireless local area networking enabli...ng phones and computer devices to access internet or a global network connecting millions of computers.

Mr Mwansa said public zones such as libraries, play parks and bus stations are the targeted places for the free Wi-Fi. https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=96545

Zambia has recorded a drastic drop in child marriage, forced & early marriages from 42% to 31.4%. Minister of Gender Victoria Kalima has told a gathering at the ongoing 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women that Government has taken a multi-sectoral approach of engaging various stakeholders through campaigns against the vices in various chiefdoms countrywide.
“Government launched the Girls Education and Women Empowerment in Livelihoods (GEWEL) project in 2016,... aimed at increasing access to education and livelihood support for girls. So far, 67 percent of the targeted 14,000 vulnerable girls have been identified and granted bursaries with the rest to be identified and enrolled in school before April 2017.
“The rest will be put on board in phases to reach the 75,000 target by 2019,” Ms Kalima said.
She urged co-operating partners and other stakeholders to consider investing in the construction of educational facilities, especially boarding schools for girls in rural communities.

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POLICE have arrested 12 pupils at Monze Boys Secondary School in Southern Province for participating in a riot sparked by the confiscation of 100 cell phones sneaked into the institution against school regulations.

And the Ministry of General Education has warned pupils country-wide not to sneak mobile phones into schools, especially those who are in boarding.
Spokesperson Hillary Chipango said in an interview yesterday the ministry last week confiscated 100 cell phones at th...e school which had been illegally sneaked in by the learners.

Mr Chipango said 12 pupils were arrested after they destroyed school property in protest but eight were released.

“All the phones are in the custody of school authorities as Government policy does not allow the use of cell phones in schools,” he said.
“Cell phones usually disturb the learning process for the pupils as most of them just go on social media,” Mr Chipango said.
https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=96299

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GIRL ORPHAN TELLS HER STORY

…I’ve a dream one day things will be better, says 16-year-old Mukuka

By Justina Mulenga

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I COULD only survive on the sale of munkoyo (a traditional drink) in my community, I had no one to help me go to school and finish my school, says 16-year-old Mukuka Bwalya.
It is every child’s dream to grow in a family consisting of both parents, but for others like Mukuka it’s not a dream come true.
Mukuka, a resident of Misisi compound in Lusaka, narrates that she was born on the 20th of June, 2001, from what she was told by her late grandmother.
She told the Daily Nation that she was looked after by her grandmother when she lost her parents at the age of one year in a road accident.Read more here:https://www.dailynation.news/…/17/girl-orphan-tells-her-st…/

Women abused in early childhood more likely to to face marital dissatisfaction and GBV
https://goo.gl/dmzBdh
#Women, #Zambia

The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the United Nations says, issuing a plea for help to avoid "a catastrophe", BBC reports.
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.

Unicef has already warned 1.4m children could starve to death this year.

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Mr O'Brien said $4.4bn (£3.6bn) was needed by July to avert disaster.

"We stand at a critical point in history," Mr O'Brien told the Security Council on Friday. "Already at the beginning of the year we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations."

"Now, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine. Without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death. Many more will suffer and die from disease.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39238808

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Interesting stories indeed. thanks.

 

George S. Chiyeke Executive Director Children In Distress (CINDI) - Kitwe Trust 6 Kabengele Avenue, Town Area Box 216633 Kitwe, Zambia Cell: +260 979 690 994         +260 968 436 569         +260 955 216 900

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[BARBRA PHIRI]

Very interesting stories and thanks a lot.

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On Mon, 3/20/17, 'godfrida mweni' via child pen <chin...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Child Related Stories
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Date: Monday, March 20, 2017, 2:03 AM

Justina Mulenga... I COULD only survive on the sale of munkoyo (a

death this year.... Mr

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