Please visit the web frequently, because you do not want do miss all of the coming events and updated information regarding our projects this autumn!
Glad sommar önskar styrelsen!
text: Hanna Eckeskog
I am glad to invite you members of the Swedish-Zambian Association to an After Work with two special guests from our project in Zambia, Lisa Kafwanka and Annette Musonda from Youth club 1.
They are here in an exchange project between Zambian and Swedish youths and will now come to Stockholm to tell us about there experiences from there time in Sweden. And of course we want to get the chance to see them, now when they are this close to our hometown.
Come, get something to eat or have a drink together, get to know Lisa and Annette and listen to there story.
We meet at 6 pm at restaurant Jebena – at Kungsklippan in Stockholm.
Observe that this After Work is in a different restaurant!
Take the subway to T-Rådhuset, be seated in the end of the train from the central station (T-centralen) and exit towards Kungsklippan (I think it is called)!
Länk till Restaurant Jebena »www.restaurantjebena.com
Welcome! We hope to see you all there!
// Åsa, Staffan och Eva
Now its time to meet and get to know old and new members of the Swedish-Zambian Association. Share experiences and expectations of what the future will offer us as members and SweZam.
Have a drink together and feel the nice atmosphere!!!
We meet at 6 pm at the bottom level of the Ethiopian restaurant – EthioStar – at Saltmätargatan 19 A in Stockholm.
Take the subway to T-Rådmansgatan, exit towards Handelshögskolan (the business school), walk around the left corner of Handelshögskolan and the first parallel street to Sveavägen is Saltmätargatan.
Välkommen/Welcome!
We hope to see you all there!
Se bifogad inbjudan med dagordning. Hoppas att du har tid och lust att komma. Förutom själva årsmötesförhandlingarna så är det ett gemensamt arrangemang med fyra andra södra Afrika vänskapsföreningar. Ett utmärkt tillfälle att träffa andra människor med samma intresse för Afrika som du. Det brukar bli mycket trevligt.
Hjärtligt välkommen!
Med vänlig hälsning
Rolf Svanström
Svensk Zambiska föreningen
The ambassador embracing two birthday children on the Independence of Zambia.
As one entered the Zambia House in Djursholm, the site of seeing the many women and men so glamorously dressed in different patterns of the traditional chitenge dresses and shirts, was just overwhelming.
As the independence celebration was happening just at the end of the European Development Days (EDD), and many Zambians who had been at this conference were amidst including the Auditor General to name a few.
When time for speeches came, SweZam through its Chairman Rolf Svanström commended Zambia for having identified the Health scandal and bringing out the culprits to book, however what he challenged Zambia was the lack of timeframes for these development issue.
The vice-chairperson of Pamodzi association reminded all the local Zambians present on who they were as Zambians living in Sweden in the diaspora.
The third and final speech was from the Ambassador, Joyce Musenge, whose speech was mainly based on reflections from the European Development Days. She critically looked at issues of how the West and developing countries should standardize terminologies when reporting. She gave an example of the misunderstanding in the categorisations of Corruption and theft in the events of the Health scandal.
After the speeches a toast was made in honour of the political leadership and thereafter everyone were invited to the buffer table where hot Zambian delicacies comprising nshima, stews and vegetables of rape and chiwawa were served. SweZam had for sale some brouchers whose profits went to its Youth club in Kitwe.
Text: Joyce Phiri de Maré, SweZam board
On the 24th of October 1964 Zambia became Zambia! And of course we celebrate this together in the Swedish-Zambian Association!
Date and time: 24 October 2009 – Saturday between 17:00-20:00 hrs
Info: Celebration of the Zambia Independence Day!
Location: at the residence of the Zambian ambassador Mrs Joyce Musenge
Contact: To attend the celebration, please RSVP no later than October 23 to Rolf Svanström 018-515280, 0707-960300 or rms.it@telia.com
Read more on Wikipedia: On October 24, 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony)!
See photos from our earlier Independence celebrations in SweZam under Fotogalleri »
Please come and celebrate on the 10th of October in Gothenburg!
Info: Our guests from Mindolo will visit Gothenburg and we will meet with other associations related to Zambia, e.g. ZASP, Chiparamba, Thandizo and MaSwe.
When: Saturday 10th of October at 18:00
Location: Änggårdskolonin, Medicinaregatan, Gothenburg
Contact: If you want to join the dinner with a cost of 150 sek pp, please contact Lisa Persson, from the SweZam board. Email: lisa.persson@swipnet.se
And if you are able to help out at the dinner or perform a song or something, please contact our SweZam member in Gothenburg, Fredrik Jernqvist. Email: jernqvist@telia.com or cell phone: 0705 53 53 23.
Our three Zambian guests have arrived to Sweden! Come to meet them in an informal afterwork gathering where you have the opportunity to chat and meet other members of SweZam!
Info: Three Zambians from our youth project in Mindolo, Kitwe, are visiting Sweden. Please welcome Linda Malukutu, Don Mwindilila and Bruce Mubanga! They are here for two weeks as the second part of our SweZam exchange project, which aims to find relevant evaluation methods for the SweZam youth project in Zambia. Come to meet them in an informal afterwork gathering where you have the opportunity to chat and meet other members of SweZam!
Location for the afterwork: We meet at 6 pm at the bottom level of the Ethiopian restaurant – EthioStar – at Saltmätargatan 19A in Stockholm. No registration needed – come as you are! (Food and beverages at your own cost.)
How to get there: Take the subway to T-Rådmansgatan, exit towards Handelshögskolan (the business school), walk around the left corner of Handelshögskolan and the first parallel street to Sveavägen is Saltmätargatan!
Arranged by The Swedish-Zambian Association
If you can’t make it tonight, you will have another opportunity to meet our guests in - Gothenburg on Saturday 10th of October or in - Stockholm on Saturday 17th of October! On the site you will find out the latest schedule and more info in the calender.
Three Zambians from our youth project in Mindolo, Kitwe, are visiting Sweden in October. Please welcome Linda Malukutu, Don Mwindilila and Bruce Mubanga!
They are here for two weeks as the second part of our SweZam exchange project, which aims to find relevant evaluation methods for our youth project. These two weeks we will continue to ask: ”How can we do the right thing, in the right way?”, meanwhile we also take the opportunity to show our guests Sweden, of course.
Dates: Sunday 2009-10-04 to Sunday 2009-10-18
Location: Different cities in Sweden – Stockholm, Uppsala, Göteborg, Värnamo, Vadstena!
Read more: Read about the Mindolo project and the activites in SweZam in the Calender.
Contact: Do you want to meet up with Don, Linda and Bruce? Please contact us on info@swedish-zambian.org to find out their latest schedule!
Did you miss the Annual General Meeting? Here comes a small report from the SweZam AGM – which was held on the 14th of March 2009.
Some two dozen members of the Swedish-Zambia Association made their way to Etnografiska museet on March 14 for the Annual General Meeting, one of the regular features on the Swe-Zam calendar.
Early arrivals heard Swedish journalists Jenny Söderqvist and Helen Åberg recount their terrifying experience of coping in the Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana after their hired vehicle exploded and they were stranded without water among wild animals. The two made headlines in Sweden when their ordeal was reported in May 2006, and they have also written about their experience in the book, Exit Kalahari.After their exciting story, the respective friendship associations met for more mundane discussions at different locations in the museum.
The ambassador of Zambia - Mrs Joyce Musenge and her husband (click for bigger photos)
Swe-Zam Chairman Rolf Svanström made a summary of activities during 2008, including highlights from the Youth Rights Information Centre project at Mindolo. Members supported extending this project, giving the incoming board one of its first tasks. But as Treasurer Elisabeth Persson and others noted, there is need to raise more funds for the mandatory portion that Swe-Zam has to pay in order to secure funds from Forum Syd. Members, including those not able to attend the March 14 meetings, were invited to suggest means to raise funds – contact information for the board is offered on the website and in the Newsletter.The meeting also approved some amendments to the constitution, and elected a new board for the coming year.
With the formalities taken care of, it was time to get a drink and mingle with members and guests from other associations before finding a seat at one of the dozen tables set up in “verkstan”.The buffet offered dishes familiar from both Swedish and Southern African dinner tables, including a classic meat dish from Botswana with pounded meat cooked off the bone.Unlike previous years, there was no disco. The joint events ended with a special showing of “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,” an adaption of Alexander McCall Smith’s first book in the best-selling series on Mma Ramotswe. Quite a few chuckles were heard afer the film as people went to get their coats and headed out into the wintry Stockholm night.
Text: Lennart Simonsson, SweZam