BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Chikwawa Nkombezi constituency, parliamentarian, Abida Mia has pledged to bring meaningful development in her area including health, education, agriculture, infrastructure and among others.
Mia who is also Minister of Water and sanitation made the commitment on Saturday, October 26, 2024 when she handed over a classroom block and an administration block at Gombwa Junior Primary School, Traditional Authority (TA) at Ngabu in Chikwawa District.
The initiative has been done using MK46 million Constituents Development Fund (CDF).
Speaking at the occasion, Mia hailed government’s decision to adjust upwards the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to MK200 million this financial year saying it has enabled her to fully develop her constituency.
“Unlike in the past when the CDF was at MK100 million, a lot of areas in the country lacked significant development with some infrastructural developments constructed being substandard.
“I therefore hail President Lazarus Chakwera for intrusting us with this huge chunk of money for us to put to good use,” said Mia.
She added she has also initiated other developmental projects in the areas of health, agriculture, water and sanitation among others using resources from the CDF and financial assistance from other partners.
On his part head teacher for Gombwa Junior Primary School, Chikwasha Jimu said the challenges of inadequate class room blocks at the school which has STD 1-6 forced learners at the school to be learning under tree shelters.
Jimu therefore hailed the parliamentarian for constructing the school block which has two classes.
Director of Education and Sports for Chikwawa, Getrude Jumbe said inadequate class room block challenges in the district resulting into learners congestion in most schools with teacher to pupil ratio of 1:80.
During the event, Mia also distribute food stuffs including flour and soya pieces to community’s Vulnerable people mainly the elderly, orphans and women with support from the Muslim World League.
LILONGWE-(MANA)-First Lady Madam Monica Chakwera has underscored the need for communities in the country to have access to clean and potable water to ensure a healthier and dignified future.
She made the remarks on Monday, during the handover ceremony of a Solar powered water reservoir project, at Lisoka Trading Centre in the area of Senior Chief Khongoni donated by the Muslim World League (MWL) worth K150 million.
“Water is the essence of life, and by providing access to this precious resource, you have given our community the means to thrive.
“The impact of this reservoir cannot be overstated. It will alleviate the daily struggle for water that so many in our community face, reducing the burden on women and children who often walk long distances to fetch water,” said Madam Chakwera.
She then hailed the Muslim world league for the project saying the donation is a clear demonstration of the generosity and compassion of the Muslim World.
The First Lady stated that the reservoir will also serve as a cornerstone for further development and collaboration.
In her remarks, Minister of Water and Sanitation, Abida Mia said the 30,000 litres water project will sustain the lives of people in six villages around the water reservoir.
She then appealed to the MWL for more collaborative efforts to address other challenges the country is facing including climate related disasters.
“President Lazarus Chakwera has emphasised that his government would ensure that people in the country especially in the rural areas have water all year round, I have noted that some villages in this area don’t have access to safe water, my ministry will soon address the challenge,” she stressed.
Secretary general of the Muslim World League, Dr. Muhammad Bin Abdulkarim Al Issa stated that the league will continue supporting projects aimed at alleviating challenges faced by communities in the country.
Senior Chief Khongoni highlighted that the water reservoir will address critical water shortage which the area experienced prior to the implementation of the project.
She expressed gratitude to the government and the MWL for bringing the project in her area.
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-The Muslim World League on Monday April 3, 2023 donated maize flour to 1500 households who were displaced into camps because of Cyclone Freddy in Chikwawa district.
After the donation, Mia donated assorted items to over 800 households as part of her charity works.
The assorted items, worth MK8 million, including cash for each household, salt, clothes and maize seed for irrigation.
During the event, Chikwawa Nkombezi member of parliament Abida Mia appealed to people to move upland so that they are less prone to natural disasters such as floods.
During the event, Chikwawa Nkombezi lawmaker and also Minister of Water and Sanitation Abida Mia therefore appealed to people living in flood prone areas to move upward so that they are less.
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Deputy Minister of Lands, Abida Sidik Mia in collaboration with Muslim World League have extended the Eid sacrifice to the people of Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency where Mia is also Member of Parliament (MP).
The meat measured in five tonnes has been distributed in 2,500 packs with constituents at Chambuluka, Nkumanidza and Chituwi directly benefiting regardless of their religious affiliation.
The beneficiaries include guardians of patients at Ngabu Rural Hospital which is located in the constituency.
Member of the Mia family, Ahmad Sidik Mia represented Abida Mia during the meat distribution
During this year’s Eid ul adha, the Mia family private beef producing company, S & A Cold Storage in collaboration with various Muslim Organizations have slaughtered and distributed 1,200 cows and 2,000 goats.
According to the family, the gesture is the continuation of the Muhammad Sidik Mia legacy which has lasted for 22 years.
Abida Mia making an address before maize flour distribution to the elderly at Makande Football Ground
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)—Hungry stricken families in Chikwawa Nkombezi Constituency sang songs of joy over the weekend, following the timely response of food relief by their Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister of Lands Abida Sidik Mia with the help of the International Organisation for Relief Welfare and Development, Muslim World League.
Over 2000 families in the area of Senior Group Malemia had benefitted from the distribution of 10 kgs bags of maize flour.
The organization also donated schoos bags to over 500 pupils at Makande Model Primary School.
In her words of appreciation, Abida Mia thanked the organisation for the quick response to the current hunger situation after she had approached them for the much needed request.
Mia who lamented over the persistent hunger situation in her area pledged that she would shortly use her own money to purchase maize and reach out the needy to ease the people’s plight in the whole constituency.
Speaking to journalists, Mia said she was thankful to the good gesture by the Muslim League by swiftly and positively responded to her request.
Pressed if this was a sign that there is hunger in the constituency, Abida Mia was non-committal but said it’s not wrong to assist the elderly and those in need.
“The Chakwera administration will be distributing maize soon and will also open ADMARC selling points where 50 kg bag of maize will be sold at reasonable price,” she said when quizzed on the state of hunger preparedness in her constituency.
Abida Mia also made a donation of school bags to Makande Model Primary School pupils, girls in particular.
The statistics of young girls being impregnated and getting married due to closure of schools by the government in order to contain the spread of the Chinese originated Covid19 virus are alarming in the country. The situation, just like it has hit most if not all districts in the country, has also not spared Chikwawa Nkombedzi Constituency where at Makande primary school alone, six standard 7 and 8 girls were confirmed by school officials to have been impregnated.
Concerned with such reports, Abida donated school bags, each bag with a package of a Mathematical Instrument, calculator, exercise books, ruler, pens, a mask and a set of colored pencils to 450 primary school learners, which saw a lion’s share of these bags going to girls.
“It’s no longer a secret that some school going girls have been impregnated due to the closure of schools which came as one way of containing the spread of covid19.
“Now that State President Dr Lazarus Chakwera has directed that schools be re-opened in early September, I thought I should encourage and excite the remnants to focus on school and work hard with this small gesture of donating school bags,” she said.
Abida Mia told the girls to look no further but to herself as their role model.
“I am a member of Parliament, Deputy Minister and married to a fine gentleman, Sidik Mia. Please work hard and focus on your education because I wouldn’t be where I am today if I had chosen to abandon basic education and embrace the institution of marriage at an early age,” she said with the intention of not bragging but to inspire them to find a reason why they should seriously pursue their education.
The Deputy Minister then thanked the Muslim World League for helping her with the school bags.
“I appealed to Muslim World League for this help and I am happy that they responded positively and timely. I therefore hope that this gesture will boost the girls’ morale at school when they re-open,” she said.
The school bags donation was made at Makande model primary and Mchenga primary, by far the largest primary schools in the constituency. She promised to reach out to other schools with a similar or different initiative depending on available opportunities.
According to the organisation’s Director, Muslim World League will reach the needy across the country regardless of religious affiliation.
Abida Mia hails Muslim World League for feeding Chikwawa-Nkombezi constituents
By Leo Mkhuwala, MFN
Hungry stricken families in Chikwawa Nkombezi Constituency together with thier legislator, Abida Sidik Mia, had on Tuesday sang songs of joy, following the timely response of food relief by the International Organisation for Relief Welfare and Development, Muslim World League.
Over 2000 families in the areas of Saopa and Ngabu had benefitted from the distribution of 25 kgs bags of maize flour.
In her words of appreciation, Member of Parliament (MP) for the area Abida Mia hailed the organisation for the quick response to the current hunger situation after she had approached them for the much needed request.
The MP who lamented over the worsening hunger situation in her area that has reached its peak in the maize off-season months of November, December 2019 and January 2020, pledged that she would shortly use her own money to purchase maize and reach out with relief to ease the people’s plight.
According to Moosa Mkhize who is the organisation’s Deputy Regional Director for Southern Africa, Muslim World League has bugeted 1 billion Malawi Kwacha towards food relief in various parts of the country where people have been affected by hunger.
The organisation’s relief response falls under its ‘Emmergency Relief for Malawi Food Crisis’.
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