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—-Finance bank Zambia limited says it is committed to invest in various sectors and to undertake projects in communities through its corporate social responsibility to help uplift living standards of the vulnerable and less privileged in society.
Bank Managing Director, Barkat Ali, says his financial institution is happy to associate itself with the provision of safe and clean drinking water through drilling of boreholes and also to provide a sanitary and hygienic environment for the communities that it lives with and works in by contributing to their good health and well being.
Mr Ali said this in a speech read on his behalf by his local Finance bank manager, Lina Maitwa, during a handover of a borehole drilled by the financial institution and its partners to Bwacha community school in Kalomo over the weekend.
“We identified various areas in Zambia that had communities that do not have access to clean water thus leading to disease, opportunistic infections and early loss of life, a plight affecting our children, especially children under five.
“Through our partnership with World Vision Zambia, an organisation that has a strong foundation in community based operations, we have successfully drilled and commissioned over 10 boreholes around Zambia at a total cost of over KR 400,000 to supplement government’s efforts in improving access to clean and safe water for the lager majority of the Zambian people,” Mr Ali said.
And officiating at the handover ceremony, Kalomo district administrative officer, Justus Phiri, said government was geared to create an enabling environment to encourage the much needed Public Private Partnership (PPP) if the country was to meet the expected Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, specifically the one that seeks to improve access to safe clean drinking water to the majority of people in the low income group.
The Bwacha school borehole is one of the Finance bank Zambia limited ventures in partnership with World Vision Zambia ‘Mukango water project’ for the supply of the commodity to needy rural areas through the bank’s corporate social responsibility initiative to plough back to communities they serve and service.
