By Jonathan Mazon Chunga
Kasungu District council through Government to Enable Service Delivery (GESD) is expected to finalize Ofesi Dispensary and Malosa Teachers Development Centre(TDC).
Speaking during the interview, The Director of Public Works Dave Chigwenembe said that they have a number of projects as a council that will benefit alot of people from Kasungu.
“We have a number of projects that we are implementing mostly hardware projects that at the end of the day they will deliver social-economic services to the community . We are doing projects that are about Education (construction of Malosa TDC), Health(Ofesi Dispensary) , Transportation (contructing a bridge in T/A Mangwazo and Trade (Construction of Chamama market), “Chigwenembe Said.
Chigwenembe further added that Ofesi dispensary was estimated to cost k40 million kwacha and that the facility is not yet finished and that it has no ESCOM electricity.
Putting up his remarks Tobias Mtonga HEMC chair person expressed his worries that he old dispensary was so small and there was not a privacy.
“After we sat down with the committee and discussed our biggst challenge about the small size of the old infrastructure. We decoded to engage the government in assisting us to building the bigger infrastructure and over 17 thousand people are going to benefit from it, “Mtonga Said.
In closing, Primary Education Advisor(PEA) for Malosa zone McJoe J.B Kanyoza also praised the coming of the TDC that it will create a forum where teachers will be able to share more on education sector and contribute to higher performance and different experiences, skills and they will also be able to host meetings during rainy seasons.
“We were facing alot of challenges in a way that we we’re un able to host Parents to Teachers meetings during rainy seasons and we were posting such meetings in my house. It wasa huge obstacle to my family but now we will be able to host such meetings and afikepo and mtukula pakhomo meetings, “Kanyoza said.
meanwhile GESD is a five a year project and is funded by World Bank for 100 million-dollars.
