Sixteen registered community clubs in Mushili Township in Ndola in chicken rearing, have received empowerment from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
Bwana Mkubwa Member of Parliament Dr. Jonas Chanda says from the CDF, he has handed over chicks, chicken feed, and other items to about 500 people belonging to sixteen registered community clubs who are involved in chicken rearing as part of the empowerment program for income generation.
Dr. Chanda says the he community clubs which were empowered are Ntungilila Women’s club, Esther Women’s Club, Twende Babili Temwenso Women Club, Holy Women Club, Mutamba Women Club, Mwabombeni Women Club, Natwange Chapamo Club, Mushili Youth Development Club, Tulipamo Club, Shalom Women Club, Mulungu Ali Naifwe, Twafwane Mushili Club, SOZAGA Widows Club, Lesa Musuma Women Club, St Dennis Women Club, and Old Peoples Men’s Club.
“The distribution was done at Bonano Primary School grounds in Mushili Township. Each of the 16 registered community clubs, who included faith based and marketeers, received a full package of 300 chicks, 19 bags of chicken feed (starter, grower, finisher), feeders, drinkers, vaccines (medicines), disinfectants, maize braw and other items,” he said.
Dr. Chanda stated that the empowerment program is ongoing and will happen in all seven wards in Bwana Mkubwa Constituency targeting Women, Youth and Men’s Clubs involved in projects such as chicken rearing, block making, cement selling, and other income generating activities.
He said altogether forty registered community clubs will benefit from the K400, 000 of CDF funds set aside for income generating activities.
“I encouraged club members to work hard and be accountable since they have all required inputs, and considered all form of empowerment as “seed money” which they should plant, nurture and grow into more wealth which can even lead them to opening small retail or wholesale cooperative shops. Profit making IGAs can lead to wealth creation and can contribute to poverty reduction at household and community levels,” he said.
The lawmaker has further encouraged the empowered clubs to get away from a culture of “unconditional cash handouts” which only lead to instant consumption and gratification, and create a vicious cycle of more dependence and poverty.
He further said the 2017 CDF is also being used to construct Kantolomba Clinic, Mwenye Clinic, Placenta pits at Kaloko and Katondo Clinics, Modern toilets at Kansengu market, and to renovate Jacaranda Police Post.

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