Bank takes cholera fight to schools
By MOSES SINJWALA
Stanbic bank Zambia limited has extended its helping hand to the on-going cholera eradication exercise to schools with the aim of curbing the further spread of the disease.
This follows the contribution on Monday, of hand sanitizer dispensing machines and fluids valued at K150,000 to 75 schools in Lusaka district.
Company Chief Executive Officer, Leina Gabaraane, said the firm was committed towards supporting Government in the fight aginst cholera.
He said that the institution had a personal responsibility to the community because this was where it operated from.
“The fight to prevent cholera in schools is of utmost importance as the most precious members of our society are the children and they need protection.
“What we have seen in Zambia in the recent past prompted us to make this gesture because as members of this community, we have lost our loved ones and it has also affected our customers, “said Gabaraane.
Speaking at the same occasion Ministry of General Education Director for standards and curriculum Dr Sunday Mwape, commended the bank for taking a proactive stance in the fight against cholera.
“The sudden outbreak of cholera has hit all of us as a nation, and we are all saddened by the impact of the epidemic that has left much of our communities dislocated in the sense of the pain of the losses that we have faced at family level and at institutional level,” he said.
Dr Mwape said that because of the cholera outbreak, government had been working hard to find ways of containing the epidemic.