{"id":1488,"date":"2025-12-01T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:26:29","slug":"chongwe-families-affected-by-heavy-rains-receive-roofing-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Chongwe families affected by heavy rains receive roofing sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chongwe District Disaster Management Committee (DDMC) has handed over 70 iron roofing sheets and assorted food items to four families whose houses collapsed in Mwanshelela village of Senior Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamaambo II following heavy rains on November 16<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0roofing sheets which cost K34, 000 were purchased through the Constituency Development Funds (CDF) disaster component\u00a0by Chongwe Municipal Council, while 4 by 50 kilogram bags of rice were also given to the families by the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking\u00a0during the handover\u00a0ceremony, Chongwe District Administrative Officer Evaristo Kayaya stated that the items are meant to cushion the affected families from the challenges they\u00a0are facing\u00a0since their houses collapsed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZANIS reports that Mr Kayaya said it is the government&#8217;s duty to take care of the welfare of people in the country who are affected by disasters through the CDF disaster component and other means.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;When the disaster occurred, we responded quickly because the government is mandated to take care of people who are affected by disasters. As a committee, we promised you that we will provide you with the necessary assistance and true to our word, we have delivered these items which we purchased through CDF&#8221;,\u00a0Mr Kayaya said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the beneficiaries,\u00a0Edwin Mubamba thanked\u00a0the\u00a0government for providing the the roofing sheets\u00a0to the affected families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chongwe District Disaster Management Committee (DDMC) has handed over 70 iron roofing sheets and assorted food items to four families whose houses collapsed in Mwanshelela village of Senior Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamaambo II following heavy rains on November 16th, 2025. The\u00a0roofing sheets which cost K34, 000 were purchased through the Constituency Development Funds (CDF) disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-onlyzanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}