Zambian Feminine Pages

22/04/2024

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!!!

*DOCUMENTARY ALERT!! Unmasking "Sticker" 💉 - The Cruel Drug Destroying Zambia's Street Children*

Freelance Journalist, Annie Zulu, goes deep undercover to unmask the cruel drug "sticker" that is destroying the lives of vulnerable street children in Lusaka.

Through harrowing first-hand accounts and covert operations, the Journalist exposes how homeless kids as young as 14 are getting addicted to inhaling jet fuel sold openly by ruthless dealers and suppliers.

Watch here:https://youtu.be/D541og55vrw?si=f2si22ifHaC7RHSd

03/04/2024

Dear new followers, you are welcome and we see you. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

05/04/2023

FROM TEARS TO JOY: SUPPORTING WOMEN´S LIVELIHOODS SUCCESS STORIES

By Annie Zulu

Prisca Kakulwa, 38, sits on a wooden chair at the entrance of her small shop in Chikunyu Village, Samfya District of Luapula Province as she passionately cuts fabric in readiness for sewing. Her young brother Lazarus Mulenga stands nearby and helps her arrange the pieces in order. READ MORE HERE:

Prisca Kakulwa looks on as her brother Lazarus and his friend work on sewing machines at her store By Annie Zulu Prisca Kakulwa, 38, sit...

31/03/2023

When you lift up the Economic Status of Women, you lift up the Economic Status of Families and Society- USA Vice President Kamala Harris.

24/01/2023

A story of a Lusaka's Kanyama compound determined mother that wants to see her girl child educated. Rains and Floods could not stop her from getting her baby girl to school.

Picture by Wesley Litaba.

16/01/2023

Dear Woman,

You that you are doing great. Well done!👏🏽

15/12/2022

Freelance Journalist and Zambian Feminine Pages Founder Annie Zulu scooped top Online Media Award at the Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC)Awards, held at Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka last night.

03/12/2022

When he says "I want to marry you baby, coz I'm tired of cooking for myself". Like lily?

03/12/2022

Happy International Day For Persons With Disabilities.

Community Development and Social Services Minister Doreen Mwamba touring stands By ANNIE ZULU Zambia joined the rest of world in the commem...

02/12/2022

R***D: WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES SHARE ORDEALS
By ANNIE ZULU
On her wheelchair, Taonga Phiri sings her favourite bemba hymn, "Lesa ekachema wandi," which means "The Lord is my Shepherd," and the sorrow and pain in her voice cannot be overlooked.
She was born with paralysed legs and is unable to walk. She is not depressed as a result of her condition because she has lived with it for the past 18 years and accepted her fate. She is depressed because a heinous incident that happened to her three years ago still haunts her.
Taonga, the youngest of her parents' four children, was r***d when she was 15 by an unknown man, and the incident not only left her psychologically traumatised, but also physically injured. She has a bone injury on her right hip from the process and requires immediate medical attention.
Read more here:

Prisca Ntalasha By ANNIE ZULU On her wheelchair, Taonga Phiri sings her favourite bemba hymn, " Lesa ekachema wandi ," which means "The Lo...

16/11/2022

A Whole Queen!!!!
Ladies and Gentleman, show some love for Queen Wezi Mhone !!!!

10/11/2022

Gentle reminder;

No woman came from any man's rib.
All men came from a woman's va**na or belly.
Don't get it twisted.

Bye. 👋🏽

05/10/2022

ZAMBIA LAUNCHES REDUCE ADOLESCENT PREGNANCIES (RAP) CAMPAIGN

By ANNIE ZULU

Government has launched the Reduce Adolescent Pregnancies (RAP) campaign with the aim of preventing early and unintended adolescent pregnancies in Zambia.

Speaking during the official launch of the campaign in Lusaka, Vice President Mrs Mutale Nalumango, who was represented by Community Development and Social Services Minister, Ms. Doreen Mwamba said this was one of Government's many interventions towards the high prevalence of adolescent pregnancies in the country.

Mrs. Nalumango noted that adolescent pregnancies are a threat to national development and that Government working with various stakeholders is scaling up efforts toward the issue.
Read more here: https://zambianfemininepages.blogspot.com/2022/10/zambia-launches-reduce-adolescent.html

21/09/2022

BRENDA NYIRENDA VIES FOR PF PRESIDENCY

Hon. Brenda Nyirenda Wrote;

"This is a great opportunity for us women to embrace. Zambia has never had a woman president.."

"Though broke but the spirit is willing. Donations can start now. Let us make our own leader who will be humble."

"Lundazi 1 for PF presidency!"

Brenda is part of the power couple, Husband and Wife are both MPs

Hon. Davies Chisopa MP, PF MP since 2014, and Hon Brenda Nyirenda Chisopa MP, PF MP, Lundazi Central.

22/08/2022

MEET BEAUTY THE ´GOAL GETTER´, KGS BENEFICIARY FROM LUFWANYAMA

By ANNIE ZULU

“An opportunity to education is the best gift that I have ever received”, say Beauty Chitengi 19, a beneficiary of the Keeping Girls in School (KGS) Programme from Lufwanyama District.

Beauty, recalls how she almost dropped out of school and her future looked uncertain in 2018, when she was in Grade 10.

Her mother who was divorced and could hardly provide food for Beauty and her two siblings, could no longer afford to pay for her school expenses.

“Life became so hard that sometimes we went go to bed without food and I was almost dropping out of school, because there was no free education then and things were tough for my mother,” she said.

Read more here: https://zambianfemininepages.blogspot.com/2022/08/meet-beauty-goal-getter-kgs-beneficiary.html

02/08/2022

Phindile Ncube was speaking at the Gender-based Violence and Femicide Summit in Irene, attended by various civil society organisations.
She is a R**E survivor.
Ncube said she had to undergo five surgical operations on her stomach as a result of the attack – including one procedure to remove plastic that had been inserted in her during the r**e.
An emotional Ncube spoke of the pain of seeing her attackers back on the streets after serving only four years.
She lifted her black dress, leaving her abdominal area exposed for all – including President Cyril Ramaphosa – to see the scars. She wore nothing under the dress.
“Our lives can’t be paroled, Mr President. The minimum sentence for s*x offenders must be at least 50 years,” Ncube said.

16/07/2022

University of Kent offered Tiwa an honourary doctorate degree in Music.
Congratulations, Dr Tiwa Savage. 🎉

15/07/2022

AU TRAINS JOURNALISTS ON FGM AND CHILD MARRIAGE REPORTING IN AFRICA

Award Winning Journalist and Zambian Feminine Pages Founder Annie Zulu is among 30 media practitioners from East and Southern Africa who have been trained by the African Union (AU) on ‘Sensitive Reporting on Harmful Practices.

The three-day media training organized by the AU Ending Harmful Practices Unit in collaboration with the Spotlight Initiative Africa Regional Programme, UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Ge***al Mutilation, and partners kicked off last week in Nairobi, Kenya and brought together media practitioners and scholars from ten countries including Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, and Somalia.

Read more here: https://zambianfemininepages.blogspot.com/2022/07/au-trains-journalists-on-fgm-and-child.html

15/07/2022

*GEWEL PROJECT SUCCESS RATE ELATES MINISTER*

The Girls Education, Women Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project has made tremendous progress in alleviating poverty levels in Zambia since its inception, Community Development and Social Services Minister Doreen Mwamba has said.

Ms Mwamba noted that the key results for the project included the Supporting Women's Livelihood (SWL) component which has reached approximately 96, 368 women and the Keeping Girls in School (KGS) component with over 70, 514 beneficiary girls.

The Minister also mentioned the Social Cash Transfer (SCT), as another key result area for the project with over 973, 323 beneficiaries.

She was speaking when she accompanied World Bank Regional Vice President Dr. Victoria Kwakwa to meet some of the project's beneficiaries at Nampundwe Secondary School in Shibuyunji District.

"As of 30th June 2022, which is the middle of the project, the budget burn down stood at 49.85%, this is despite the setbacks during the Covid 19 outbreak," Ms. Mwamba said.

Speaking at the same event, General Education Minister Dr. Douglas Siakalima thanked World Bank for partnering with Government in financing the project, stressing that the project has improved livelihoods for many Zambians, especially women and girls.

Meanwhile, Dr Kwakwa has assured the New Dawn Government of support from the World Bank on projects that are aimed at alleviating poverty and improving the livelihoods of Zambians.

She also commended Government for meeting majority of the targets of the GEWEL project.

"We recognize the efforts by the New Dawn Government in alleviating poverty and promoting gender equality, as World Bank we support such efforts," Dr. Kwakwa said.

And when giving a vote of thanks, a parent Margaret Tembo testified that the GEWEL project has changed the lives of women and girls in Shibuyunji.

"Through the project, women are able to do business and feed their families. Girls are being supported and encouraged to be in school," she said.

The GEWEL project is a Cash Plus Social Protection programme that support the poorest families in Zambia with cash transfers which empowers them to reduce their poverty levels over the longer term through complementary interventions of Supporting Women's Livelihoods (SWL) and Keeping Girls in School (KGS) layered over the same households.

01/07/2022

This is how Lusa Kilale celebrated her Birthday today..... 🥳 She donated sanitary pads to over 100 girls at Chifwema Secondary School in the outskirts of Lusaka.
Happy Birthday Lusa.🥰

30/06/2022

MINISTRY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL SERVICES INTERVENES TO CHANGE LIFE OF 96 YEAR OLD WOMAN

A 96 year old blind woman of Makunka area in Livingstone, who has been living in a ramshackle, has been identified by the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, in order to support her.

This is in an effort to put Ms Maria Syampwili Mukasibukandu on the social cash transfer programme in the shortest period of time.

Officers from the Ministry located the old lady who also has a problem with hearing and in need of basic needs such as blankets, clothes, food and proper shelter, to see how her situation can be changed.

Ms Mukasibukandu’s situation has now worsened and requires that she benefits from the programme, so that she can have access to a stable monthly income to support her.

The Ministry officers who visited her agreed with her granddaughter whose husband is also sick, to provide immediate needs such as shelter, food, and other items in the interim as they wait for her to be included on the programme.

Meanwhile, Minister of Community Development and Social Services, Ms Doreen Mwamba who was in touch with the officers, has pledged to support all the efforts to take care of the woman, considering that she has suffered a lot and is advanced in age.

Ms Mwamba further said the New Dawn government will prioritize issues to do with vulnerable people, hence the continued call to identify as many people as possible especially the old people in order for them to be included on many social protection programmes.

28/06/2022

JOURNALISTS AND FRIENDS OF THE MEDIA HONOR ABN TV'S IDAH BANDA MUSAKANYA FOR HER HUMANITARIAN STORIES
...As Itezhi-Tezhi MP Hon. Mutinta encourages other journalists to take an interest in human interest stories...

Some journalists and other stakeholders have honored ABN TV's Idah Banda Musakanya for her news reports that highlight challenges that people face in the communities.

The ABN TV Journalist has been known for a while to cover several human interest stories that have seen people in need get assistance with the most recent one involving a 56 year old man who has been taking care of his differently abled teenage daughter's menstrual hygiene.

And speaking on behalf the group, Itezhi-Tezhi Member of Parliament, Hon. Twaambo Mutinta encouraged other journalists to cover human interest stories as their importance can never be overemphasised.

He said such stories are important as they bring people closer to real issues and help in identifying ways of solving problems that exist in the communities.

He also encouraged Ms Musakanya not to relent in her effort as her work is noticed together with the impact that they make.

"Keep on doing your level best, you might think that what you do is not noticed but it is and I hope that more journalists can take up human interest stories like you do." He said.

16/06/2022

GOVERNMENT COMMITED TO ELIMINATE HARMFUL PRACTICES ON CHILDREN

Government is committed to eliminating all harmful practices against children in Zambia, Acting Community Development and Social Services Minister Chushi Kasanda has said.

In a speech read on her behalf by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Mrs Beatrice Chilufya Darko at the commemoration of the Day of The African Child in Lusaka, Ms Kasanda noted that children were the country’s future and as such, must be protected.

Ms Kasanda said Government will therefore, endeavor to mobilize and enhance partnerships with its stakeholders to work towards ending harmful practices that stands in the rights of children.

https://zambianfemininepages.blogspot.com/2022/06/government-commited-to-eliminate.html