Chaplain Adrian Hendy, at Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation, Kitwe, writes newsletters on life in Kitwe. You can also visit his blog on http://adrianhendyinzambia.blogspot.com/.
Some small-scale farmers in Lufwanyama have welcomed the maize floor price announced by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) on Tuesday. Katembula Co-operative Society farmer Isaac Lofoyi said in an interview in Lufwanyama yesterday that the price was good because the farmers would still make profits just as they had done last season. Read more at the allAfrica web site (external link) >>
The European Investment Bank last week froze all new loans to Glencore and its subsidiaries citing ”serious concerns” over the group’s corporate governance. Read more at the Zambian Economist web site (external link) >>
Despite the apparent ‘success’ of the privatisation of the Zambian copper industry, the true picture is one of systemic multinational exploitation, national assets sold ‘for a song’ and persistent tax dodging, writes Khadija Sharife. Read more at Pambazuka News (external link)
The report covers the activities which the SWEZAM project undertook from January to March 2011.The major highlights of this quarter was the outreaches that the Seven SWEZAM Youth clubs carried out in various Basic and Community Schools. Read more (pdf) >>
Debattävlingar mellan skolor är en mycket populär aktivitet som organiseras av det SWEZAM-stödda Mindoloprojektet. Ungdomarna får lägga fram sina argument kring olika teman som rör mänskliga rättigheter t ex ”barnarbete kommer inte att försvinna förrän fattigdomen är utrotad”. Ett lag argumenterar sedan för denna ståndpunkt, ett emot. Finallagen fick debattera frågan ”bör en demokratisk nation stödja aga?” Läs mer i rapporten från fjärde kvartalet nedan. läs mer (pdf) »
YPD or CUI (centrum för internationellt ungdomsutbyte) as it is called in Sweden works to get youths from different countrys to cooperate despite national and cultural boarders.
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-The programme was called ”youth partners in development” (YPD) and it was a very nice and wounderful programme, it really helped alot of people to break boarders in different cultures and also to learn about different cultures from three different parts of the world.
The theme for YPD 2010 was HIV/AIDS, PREVENTION AND ENTERPRENUERSHIP.
Having observed that HIV/AIDS is not a big problem in sweden my team and I decided to work with intergrating foreign students who found it very hard to get intergrated in the swedish society.
I was located in ostersund in the north of Sweden and I was doing my volutary work at a school, where the students were in the age range of 15-20 and came from different parts of the world e,g iraq, somalia, afghanstin, ethopia e.t.c and most of them came because of war.
So together with YPD in ostersund we came up with activities that helped them to get intergrated activities like bowling, swimming leasons, cooking swedish foods, swedish folk dance leasons. The students really liked working with us and they were very willing to corperate with us. It was really a big challenge and espeacially when the most of them would not speak english but all in all we made it.
Above all i finally got the chance to meet the swezam board in stockholm it was really a nice experience and it has really changed my life in many ways.
I really had a nice and educative time in sweden.
tack sa myket..
lisa zambia….
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The joint venture has seen several activities being undertaken, among them a seminar for students of human development. undertaken by UNDP in collaboration with the University of Zambia (UNZA) School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Jan Ölander, former Swedish ambassador to Zambia and a long-term member of the Swedish-Zambian Association, has passed away at age 76.
A seasoned diplomat, Ölander served as ambassador to Zambia and Malawi 1984-1987.
He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1961 after completing law studies at Uppsala University and working as assistant legal clerk.
Ölander held posts at the Swedish embassies in London, Prague, Washington, Canberra and at the foreign ministry, and foreign policy advisor to the National Police Board. On his retirement he worked as an international advisor.
Ölander was also an artist. His work has been shown at galleries in Stockholm and locations where
he served as a diplomat. In recent years his work was also showcased at the World Festival of Naive Art in Verneuil sur Avre, France.
Describing his own art, he said he wished ”people to be happy when looking at my paintings, which are naïve in the proper sense of the word.”
Ölander donated some of his paintings to support fundraising for the SweZam Youth Rights Information Centre project at Mindolo.
As a tribute to Ölander’s memory and another sign of his long-lasting interest in Zambia, his family plans to
make a contribution to the charity SOS Children’s Villages Zambia.
The SweZam board wishes to extend its deepest sympathies to Mr Ölander’s family, including his wife Gun, their sons and grandchildren.