GOVERNMENT INCREASES EMERGENCY CASH TRANSFERS AMIDST DROUGHT.
Here are the Highlights;
✅Government through the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services has increased the number of Emergency Cash Transfers (ECT) beneficiaries to more than 720, 000.
✅This is in response to the drought situation which has affected vulnerable households across the country.
✅ Community Development and Social Services Minister Doreen Mwamba said her Ministry is a backbone of Government because it deals with vulnerable people in the communities.
✅ Meanwhile, the Ministry is currently undertaking a national assessment and enumeration exercise to determine strategies and response measures to drought.
✅Ms. Mwamba is in Kaniki area of Ndola to witness the launch of rural payments of Social Cash Transfer (ECT).