CEJ AIMS TO PROVIDE RESILIENT LIVELIHOOD SUPPORT TO NEARLY 600 HOUSEHOLDS IN SINAZONGWE
Sinazongwe, Sunday (23 April, 2023) The Centre for Environment Justice – CEJ is aiming to reach 1,200 households in Sinazongwe and Serenje districts through the community livelihood support interventions aimed at strengthening the capacity and resilience of communities to prepare for and cope with crises. In Sinazongwe alone, CEJ targets 600 households to […]
MANGANESE POISONING IN SERENJE STRIKES 28 WORKERS AS 271 RECORD MANGANESE ABOVE NORMAL LEVEL IN THE BLOOD
Lusaka, Sunday (March 12, 2023) Acting Minister of Health Brenda Tambatamba says Government is aware of an outbreak of a strange disease in Kanona Ward in Serenje District and Chitambo Ward in Chitambo District in Central Province. Recently, Centre for Environment Justice (CEJ) Executive Director Maggie Mwape has consistently called for fair treatment of the […]
CSER PROJECT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL EXTRACTIVES IMPACTS NKANDABWE WARD IN SINAZONGWE DISTRICT
A glance at Sinazongwe, shows that the district is one of the three Gwembe rural valley districts located in Sinazongwe Chiefdom, of Southern Province. It lies within Zambia’s Agro-ecological region I, with generally hot and dry climatic conditions. Temperatures can rise up to 40 degrees Celsius during the summer and rainfall patterns follow an uneven […]
DO LOCAL COMMUNITIES BENEFITS FROM MINING
Despite the global economic crisis and reduced commodity prices, mining companies continue to enter remote communities to search for exploitable mineral reserves. Most of these frontier locations are home to indigenous, poor and vulnerable people. Mining can impact local communities both positively and negatively. While positive impacts such as employment and community development projects are […]
SOLAR POWER FOR ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY
The demand on electrical energy is rapidly increasing. Everything around us requires electrical energy either during its production or usage stage. Sustainability has become the main concern nowadays as the availability of fossil fuels is limited. Renewable energy sources such as wind, hydroelectric power, solar, and geothermal energy are generally far more sustainable than fossil […]
ARE ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOOD PROJECTS IMPROVING THE WELFARE OF THE VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES
We define alternative livelihood projects as interventions that seek to alleviate a human threat to biodiversity or natural resources through providing and encouraging the use of an alternative resource; an alternative occupation; or an alternative lower impact method of exploitation. Livelihoods of a large number of households in Zambia depend on environmental resources. On the […]