• Women have been given Chickens to keep in order to sustain their lives.
• They have also received beehives for bee keeping
• Young people have also been brought on board to help them learn some skills.

A Women’s Rights Organization in Namwala District of Southern province says its members have been empowered with Beehives for them to start keeping bees for honey production.
Speaking in an interview with Money FM News, Organization Representative Patricia Shavumba said the women have also been given Chickens to keep and later sale in order to sustain their livelihood.
Ms. Shavumba stated that the Club has also incorporated young people especially those who have dropped out of school to help them learn some skills so that they do not indulge themselves in bad vices.
“We have received empowerment, we have been given Chickens to keep so that at least we have something to do to sustain our living, and we also received beehives two weeks ago for us to be keeping bees for honey production so that we can be selling that honey.
“And in our club, we have incorporated the youth so that they can also learn from us for them to be busy by not doing things that can hinder their personal development, without indulging themselves in sexual activities especially those that have dropped out of school for various reasons,” Ms. Shavumba said.
Meanwhile, Ms. Shavumba disclosed that the organization has been empowered with knowledge on how to influence behaviour change in the girl child and young women between the ages of 10 to 24 years under the auspices of Oxfam Zambia.
“As Women’s Rights Organization in Namwala, we have received empowerment in knowledge. We have been empowered with a lot of knowledge on how to change the living of a girl child and young women from 10 to 24 years with the help of Oxfam Zambia who are implementing a project called ‘Her Future, Her Choice’ here in the district.”
“We are taking this knowledge down to the community to sensitize everyone so that they know how to access their services from the hospital and also to know their rights,” she explained.
Oxfam Zambia targets to reach 40, 000 adolescent girls and young women by 2022 under a program dubbed ‘Her Future, Her Choice project,’ being implemented in Chisamba, Chibombo, Namwala, and Itezhi-tezhi districts.
The project, whose total cost is 3.7 million Canadian Dollars, started in 2019 and is being funded by the Canadian Government through Global Affairs.