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Since 2008 Plan international Zambia has been implementing Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Mansa district of the Luapula Province and the programme that promotes use of basic health technologies in sanitation, including use of traditional pit latrines, is already showing signs of a success story that can contribute to reducing colossal economic costs of poor sanitation   By Innocent Daka They call it a “wash-to-waste facility”, a stake of sticks that holds a container of water attached with a string that is used as a switch to tilt the container with the foot, making water to flow out for one to wash hands. The wash-to-waste facility allows for one to wash hands while water runs to the ground after using the latrine, and it replaces the old unhygienic practice where water was placed in a basin in which everyone would wash. According to experts promoting such basic sanitation practices alongside use of traditional mud-grass-thatched latrines would cost Zamb...

By Innocent Daka From the onset, it is important to state that doctors are important to our lives. They are always there to help us clear the cough that has been irritating us and taking away that clear vocal ability. They are able to give a name and advice on the possible cause of the sore-throat then give the right suggestion. Without them, many of us would be dying from malaria, diarrhoea and colds that are simple and curable, but left to deteriorate.  But I do not mind on what the medical doctors will think of me or if they call for my blood for asking this question that compares their value to the lowest of workers in our society; A Doctor or Janitor: Who Is Of Premium Value? Doctors are not the only best workers we have in this world and they should not be paid more than the janitors. This is true if one thinks of the biblical teaching of the body having many parts connected together and needing each other. None of the body parts must look down upon the ...

The European Union is constructing 22 offices at a cost of K304 million in Samfya district to be used by area development committees to promote democratic governance and decentralisation. Local people are delighted because they believe the facility, which will also have an information centre, will help to increase their civic awareness and encourage their participation in community affairs and political processes of the country By Innocent Daka ON February 20 this year, the members of the Chiti-baluba   development committee zone had just settled for yet another meeting when a fisherman walked up, pulled an extra log to sit on and introduced himself as Frederick Nsofwa. “I have a question,” Nsofwa said, “I believe this committee is about good governance, rule of law and human rights.” Apparently, Mr Nsofwa’s son was arrested and convicted for possession of fish during the ban. Mr Nsofwa was not satisfied with the judgement of the magistrate court and turned to the area de...