Madison boosts cholera fight

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:59:58 +0000

By BENNIE MUNDANDO

 MINISTER of Commerce Trade and Industry, Margaret Mwanakatwe, has commended Madison Financial Services PLC group of companies for donating general cleaning equipment worth K50,000 towards the fight against cholera.

On Tuesday, Madison officially handed-over 50 work suits, 50 gumboots, 50 industrial reusable work gloves, all-purpose assorted disinfectants, 25 industrial bins and 20 wheelbarrows amounting to K50, 000 to help the Government through the Ministry of Commerce Trade and Industry to improve sanitation and the general environment countrywide.

Speaking when she received the donation, Ms. Mwanakatwe, who is also Lusaka central area Member of Parliament, said the cholera outbreak had affected business as suppliers and traders had also been adversely affected.

 She noted that with good gestures such as the one shown by Madison Financial Services, her ministry would ensure that trading continued and flourished in a clean and safe environment.

She urged business houses to continue supporting the cause to fighting cholera alongside Government’s efforts in ensuring that there was continuous cleaning to create a clean and safe environment for doing business.

And company managing director Chabala Lumbwe said a clean and hygienic environment was not only a basic need for mankind, but a necessity.

Mr. Lumbwe said the donation from his company was in recognition of the basic human need to live and work in a clean environment and a reflection of the group of companies’ goodwill to the people of Zambia.

He further explained that the donation was anchored on the group’s core values on environmental protection that recognised that the institution’s existence was made possible by the societies in which it operated.