By Praise Mkula:
The Zomba Development Network, an engine to drive socio-economic development from the grassroots in Zomba district yesterday distributed assorted relief items to people affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Freddy in Mtogolo village.
Visiting the cyclone survivors sheltered at Malemia and Ndecha camps, Julius Chitseko, a UK based member of the network shared food and sanitation items with 35 families,10 grand parents,10 child headed families and 8 selected vulnerable people.
Chitseko said that the network had noted that the disaster had seriously disrupted household, district and national productivity as it impacted on food security, social service delivery and economic growth.
He pointed out that the network had been formed to instil hope and a spirit of self reliance where residents need to identify and utilise opportunities available around them such as the good weather patterns, land, rivers, lake, mountain, the biodiversity and mineral resources
“The network is a vehicle which is going to be used to mobilise and inspire Zomba district residents not to relent but take up necessary actions that will spur individual and collective growth,” he said.
Chief Mtogolo thanked the network and promised to render it support as it works at lifting the status of the district.
Zomba Development Network was established by bona fide sons and daughters of Zomba resident in Malawi and in the diaspora to encourage people in the district to take up various development initiatives on their own
