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Charity Chanda Lumpa Foundation [CCLF] is a charitable organisation whose main objective is to serve humanity in an effort to contribute towards making the world a better place.

10/05/2026

Happy Mother’s Day !

To the mothers in our markets, our homes, our corporate offices, and our communities thank you for your strength.

At CCLF, we celebrate you today and recommit to fighting for better healthcare, safer trading spaces, equitable workplaces, and opportunities worthy of your hard work.

You are the foundation.

Muli ba mama, mulibakulu. Thank you for all you do.

06/05/2026

*Ms. Charity Chanda Lumpa pays a Courtesy Call on the UCZ Synod Bishop*

_Lusaka, 6th May 2026_ — The United Church of Zambia (UCZ) Synod Bishop, Bishop Reverend Festus Chilu, today received Ms. Charity Chanda Lumpa and her team at Synod Headquarters in Lusaka, Woodlands, where she paid a courtesy call on his office.

Ms. Lumpa took the opportunity to greet the Bishop who was appointed in the role on July 1, 2024. During the call Ms Lumpa shared that she's a member of the UCZ Trinity Church on Church Road, a church in the UCZ Lusaka Central Consistory. She is a baptised member of her congregation and has been an member since 1974. She has served as an Elder of her church in Section 8, as Fundraising Committee Convenor of the Trinity Church for building the new sanctuary. Her Committee was instrumental in jump starting the building project of the new sanctuary, and oversaw the historical groundbreaking for the same in 2019. She also served as Music Committee Convenor overseeing the music ministry of the church choirs and praise teams. She is an active member of Trinity Church and has supported various church activities over the years.

The Bishop was pleased to welcome Ms Lumpa and her team. He appreciated that she had found time to pay a courtesy call on his office. He appreciated Ms Lumpa's engagement with Trinity and encouraged her to continue serving God and her community. He appreciated the various roles she has played in her congregation and exhorted her to continue with her good works.

The Bishop then blessed Ms Lumpa and prayed over her and the delegation.

15/04/2026

The Story of the 200 Learner Suspensions:

A View

It has been reported that over 200 pupils at a Zambian secondary school were suspended and barred from writing their end-of-term examinations. The stated reason: absence from a school prayer day. Among those affected, some pupils are said to have missed school due to illness.
We share this not to point fingers or assign blame. Schools bear an enormous weight of responsibility, and we recognise that administrators often face genuinely difficult decisions. Rules and school codes of conduct exist for good reason — they create structure, instil discipline, and uphold community values. When a family chooses a school, they do indeed enter into an agreement to honour its norms.
And yet — when we place ourselves in the shoes of a child who missed an examination not out of defiance, but because their body failed them — we are moved to ask some deeper questions.
What does a missed term mean for a child from a vulnerable household? For many of our learners across Zambia, a single lost examination is not a minor setback. It can alter a trajectory. It can deepen a family's hardship. It can extinguish a dream that was already flickering.

Zambia's Constitution enshrines the rights of every citizen — and that includes our children. The Education Act and related instruments speak to the rights and welfare of learners. How do we, as communities, parents, schools, and a society, ensure those rights live not only in our laws, but in our classrooms and corridors?
We believe in discipline. We also believe in the profound dignity and potential of every child.
These are not opposing convictions. They can — and must — coexist.
We would love to hear your perspective. What do you think should happen in situations like this? How can schools uphold their standards while also protecting the most vulnerable among their learners?
💚 Your voice matters. Let's have this conversation

10/04/2026

ABOUT EASTER!

On Easter Sunday, 5 April 2026, at the Oldies Fundraising Dinner Dance held at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus, the Charity Chanda Lumpa Foundation founder addressed guests gathered at the 3Sixty Convention Centre.

She began by welcoming clergy, friends, and fellow Oldies, calling it "this most sacred of nights." She said Easter reminds us of Christ’s victory over sin, death, and the darkness that tries to overwhelm us. She told the audience it was a night to celebrate new life and resurrection, and to remember that God’s plan is always greater than any challenge we face.

She then spoke about the reason they had gathered: the Lusaka Pastoral Centre. She explained that it was not simply a construction project but an "infrastructure of grace" for the entire Archdiocese of Lusaka. She laid out its scope, noting it would connect 12 deaneries and more than 80 parishes, serve as home to the Chancery, and coordinate the Church’s work in schools, hospitals, and social services. She placed special emphasis on its designation as a Centre of Excellence for Environmental Care, saying it proved the Church was practising what it preaches about caring for God’s creation.

The founder stressed that the centre belonged to everyone. She mentioned parish leaders looking for guidance, young people journeying on pilgrimage, and families who depend on Church services across Lusaka. She called it a clear message to the community: you are seen, supported, and you belong. She connected the project to nation-building, saying it was designed to be self-sustaining and to uplift the wider community.

She acknowledged the K750 ticket each guest had contributed, thanking them for that start. She then announced her own personal pledge to the Lusaka Pastoral Centre building fund and encouraged everyone to dig a little deeper and give what they could.

She ended with the declaration, "He is risen. And tonight, so are we," before wishing all present God’s blessings and a Happy Easter.

kubombela abantu chapamo

05/04/2026

Leadership & Governance
UNZA's Infrastructure Crisis. A Question of Leadership: Authority vs Responsibility and Resources
A balanced analysis.

The tragic death of Emmanuel Bwalya — a second-year student at the University of Zambia who drowned in a sewer pool on campus — has forced a necessary national conversation. Not just about grief, but about governance, institutional accountability, and what we owe our young people.

How can a university that cannot safely manage its own grounds be trusted to shape the minds that will manage our nation?
The Central Question.

Before we assign blame, we must ask the harder question: why is UNZA in this condition? The answer is almost certainly not simple negligence alone. It perhaps sits at the intersection of chronic underfunding, institutional inertia, and deferred accountability — over many years and across multiple administrations.

If funds were available
Why were sewers — and perhaps the whole campus — not maintained? Resource allocation must be answered.

If funds were not available
How were budgets managed? What was prioritised over student safety?

Either way:
Leadership must account for the outcome — not just the intent.

A Balanced Assessment:
UNZA, like many public institutions of higher education in Zambia, operates under severe fiscal pressure. Government subventions have not kept pace with enrolment growth. Infrastructure built in the 1960s and 70s was not designed for today's growing student population. These are real constraints — and they deserve acknowledgement.

However, constraint is not the same as helplessness. Good institutional leadership means making difficult choices transparently — flagging risks to government, managing limited resources with discipline, and communicating honestly when conditions become unsafe. Above all, it is also about independently fundraising and mobilising UNZA's vast alumni network to support annual budgets, for example.

A deteriorating sewer system does not collapse overnight. It sends warnings for years. The question is not only whether UNZA had the money — it is whether those in charge were paying effective attention.

The Presidential Response:
President Hichilema's directive to mobilise ZNS and LWSC was swift and commendable. Ninety percent of water supply has now been restored. Mobile toilets have been installed. Excavation is underway. That is responsiveness at work. But it also reveals a structural gap: institutional leadership should not require a Presidential directive to address infrastructure failure. That gap is where reform — and much needed creativity and innovation — must begin.

Recommendations:
• Parliament must conduct an independent audit of UNZA's infrastructure maintenance budget over the last 10 years — to establish whether funds are inadequate, misapplied, or both.

• A mandatory campus safety framework should be legislated, with annual public reporting obligations for all public universities and colleges.

• Government subvention to UNZA must be reviewed against actual infrastructure needs — not historical baselines that no longer reflect reality.

• University leadership must be empowered — and perhaps through new legislation — to raise their own resources independently.

• A living memorial fund in Emmanuel Bwalya's name, for example, should be established to support campus infrastructure improvements — turning tragedy into lasting reform.

• University Councils must be strengthened with clearer accountability mandates, including the power and duty to escalate safety risks publicly — among other mandates critical to improving both infrastructure and the quality of education. This includes the mandate to raise own funds to complement government funding.

To Conclude
Emmanuel Bwalya went to UNZA to build a future. The institution that was meant to protect that future failed him. We should honour his memory not with words alone, but by ensuring that no student ever again faces such preventable danger on a Zambian campus.

Leadership is not simply the authority to make decisions. It is the responsibility to make the right ones — timely — especially for those who cannot advocate for themselves.

What is leadership if you only exercise authority?

28/03/2026

Happy Kuomboka!!!

23/03/2026

The Charity Chanda Lumpa Foundation (CCLF) strongly condemns the heinous murder of Eneless Hellen Kamutumbe (46), who was brutally killed by a mob in Kalumbila District.

The allegation? That she had “stolen someone’s manhood.”
An accusation so absurd it defies logic, reason, and basic human understanding.

Is this the Zambia we are becoming?
A nation where justice is mobbed—not served?
Where human life is cheapened by misinformation, superstition, and vigilante violence?

We ask: How did we descend to this?
Taking the law into our own hands, bypassing lawful authority, and trampling on the fundamental rights and dignity of a fellow human being.

The women who joined in, encouraged, or stood by in silence must be roundly condemned.
Instead of protecting one of their own, they turned against her. That is not strength. It is a failure of compassion, values, and moral courage.

> “Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.” — Isaiah 1:17

What a way to mark Women’s Month and youth recognition—by abandoning the very values we claim to uphold.

CCLF calls for the immediate and decisive action of the Zambia Police Service to identify and prosecute all those involved—those who led, those who participated, and those who enabled this atrocity.

Silence and passive complicity must not be ignored. A society that tolerates bystanders to brutality risks normalising lawlessness.

Let this be clear:
Mob justice is not justice. It is criminality.

Let justice prevail for Eneless Hellen Kamutumbe.
Let law and order be upheld—firmly, visibly, and without compromise.

The Charity Chanda Lumpa Foundation (CCLF) stands in solidarity with the victim’s family and all those who seek a Zambia anchored in dignity, humanity, and the rule of law.
The abnormal must never be allowed to become normal in how we respond to such atrocities.

21/03/2026

KATONDO LIBRARY ABLUTION BLOCK REHABILITATED. Charity Chanda Lumpa Foundation (CCLF) has today handed over the rehabilitated Katondo Library Ablution Block. Speaking during the handover ceremony in Lusaka, Lusaka City Council Public Health Director, Victor Kagoli, described the project as a major project that will combat diseases that are spread through public toilets. Mr. Kagoli further stated that this will ease access to the bathroom among marketeers, commuters, and members of the general public in the central business district. "This is a great barrier to communicable diseases, even this time when we are in the rainy season," he said. He cautioned the Lusaka City Council Union, managing the facility, not to take advantage of the resources collected, use it for a meaningful purpose.

And CCLF Founder, Charity Chanda Lumpa, disclosed that a clean, safe, and functional public toilet is one of the basics, but yet a powerful vindicator of a powerful society. Ms. Lumpa added that this ceremony speaks to how society values human dignity and how to protect public health, and it shows how organized a community is. "When sanitation falls, it affects everything: our health, our productivity, and us all," she said. Ms. Lumpa further said that this is the first phase, and three more are yet to be rehabilitated, including Findeco House Council toilets, Cairo Road Post Office public ablution block, and Intercity Bus Terminal ablution block. She disclosed that, beyond the physical work, something more important has been demonstrated, stating that practical solutions are possible and attainable when both private and public institutions, as well as the community, work together. "Clean cities are not created by councils alone, but sustained by collective efforts, and this facility will only remain clean if it's respected."

Meanwhile, Clean Cities Initiative Zambia (CCI) Project Lead – Country Coordinator, Watts Mwila Elliot, said that this is not just about a building, but it's about dignity, public health, and the kind of city every citizen deserves. Mr. Mwila explained that public sanitation facilities in the cities have faced significant challenges, from neglect to limited maintenance, affecting not only hygiene standards but also the image of the cities. He further disclosed that Phase One focused on the rehabilitation of this facility at Katondo Library, including repair and restoration, basic sanitation upgrades, improved hygiene standards, and enhancing access for the public. "As we hand over this facility today, we are not just handing over a structure — we are handing over a shared responsibility. Let this be the beginning of a new standard for sanitation in Lusaka," he said.

Kubombela abantu Chapamo

15/03/2026

As we wrapped up women and youth week, Ms. Lumpa, Founder of the Charity Chanda Lumpa Foundation, reaffirms the foundation's commitment to empowering young people and women through initiatives that promote health, wellness, and socioeconomic growth. Yesterday's aerobics event, themed "Healthy Living, Healthy Communities & Happy Families," served as a powerful reminder that fitness and community development go hand-in-hand. * *
* -KUBOMBELA-ABANTU-CHAPAMO*

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