Zambia poverty stance hailed
ZAMBIA is responding well to challenges of poverty and climate change and as an institution we will significantly contribute to achieving the 7th National Development Plan and the Vision 2030, LIUTEBM University has said.
Speaking during its 5th graduation ceremony held at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka last Friday, university chancellor Louis John D’Amore said challenges of poverty and climate change had become a global problem as world population was swelling but that Zambia was responding well to mitigate such.
Dr. D’Amore said climate change had remained the most serious existential threat facing humanity and that it is quest to contribute positively to the fight, LIUTEBM had introduce climate change in its programmes.
“More than 7 million people now inhabit the earth. Some living in extreme poverty while others live in extreme luxury. Zambia is responding to these challenges through its 7th National Development Plan and the vision 0 0 and /IUT(BM will significantly contribute to achieving the goals of the 7th National Development Plan and the Vision 0 0 through the proposed centre of research, development and innovation.
“In the long-run, it will serve as a nourishing catalyst to the realisation of strategic and sustainable national development, employment generation, and poverty alleviation. Climate change is perhaps the most serious existential threat facing humanity. It is a threat requiring a fundamental reshaping of behaviour and collective response of governments, industry, and institutions,” Dr. D’Amore said.
He said his university will relentlessly work towards addressing the adverse effects of climate change by tailoring its programmes to ensure they resonated with interventions set aside to alleviating climate change challenges.
“To this end, LIUTEBM’s introduction of a climate change programme is yet one more example of the international leadership being shown by your university and a model of “Thinking globally, acting locally.
This investment in education becomes a foundation for knowledge building and an integral part of development and the basic goal of development is to create an enabling environment for people to live long, health lives,” he said.