A ZAMBIAN-owned investment company has taken upon itself to beautify the surrounding of the capital city and other places around the country with free picturesque and environmentally friendly landscaping.
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Liwant Investment Limited plans on planting lawns, flowers and beautiful plants around Government ministries and other public spaces using its own resources.
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To have the required human resource to achieve this, the company is working to round up more than 500 unqualified young youths who it will train and employ.
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Liwant Investment Limited executive chairman Frederick Wamulume said the aim of the project is to maintain a green and clean environment in a sustainable manner while creating jobs for young people.
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Wamulume said he had been inspired by President Hakainde Hichilema’s “methodical and systematic approach” towards governance and job creation.
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He called on other institutions to come and board join hands Liwant Investment Limited to devise a cost-savings formula to maintain public infrastructure such as Government institutions and afford citizens a clean environment in a proposed partnership with the Lusaka City Council and the Ministry of Green Economy and Environment.
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The company has already demonstrated what it can do.
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With a workforce of about 20 youths, the company has transformed the face of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lusaka.
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After trimming the lawns, putting a pavement, planting plants, more lawns and flowers, it has stationed five youths there maintain the beautiful surrounding.
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Wamulume told Kalemba that with the support of the government and all concerned citizens, his company is prepared to replicate what it has done at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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“Subject to Government’s approval of the project we will go ahead to improve the surrounding of other public institutions at no cost, but will only require exclusive rights of advertising on the transformed surrounding in partnership with local authorities,” Wamulume said.
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He added the project has the potential to create many permanent jobs for young people that will be engaged to transform and maintain the surrounding landscapes at public institutions.
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“The project aims to ensure that all public places are kept clean green and healthy in a sustainable manner by creating formal jobs that do not need the much preached academic qualification,” Wamulume said.
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The project is however not with projected benefits for the company.
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Wamulume hopes to turn these facelifted spots into advertising slots for companies who take them up at a fee.
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Kalemba December 30, 2022
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