The Ministry of Community Development and Social Welfare is working with Ministry of Youth and Sport to remove street kids and beggars from streets in Zambia, to ensure they are not victims and conduits of Covid19.
Minister of Youth and Sport Emmanuel Mulenga says the exercise that begins tomorrow in Lusaka, and Saturday on the Copperbelt, will ensure that street kids are taken to Orphanages that have been identified in Lusaka and the Copperbelt.
Speaking at a joint Press Briefing in Lusaka today, Mr. Mulenga said the relocation exercise should be completed within 7 days and said the street adults should stay at their respective homes and will be assisted under the Social Cash Transfer Scheme.
Mr. Mulenga emphasized that government will enforce the juvenile law and arrest those that will defy the directive to vacate the street while working with the Child Protection Unit under the Zambia Police.
Speaking during the same briefing, Minister of Community Development and Social Welfare Kampamba Chewe urged people to stop giving alms to street kids.
She said there should be no reason for anyone to stick in the streets after the relocation exercise which begins tomorrow and that people should donate to organizations as opposed to giving individual street kids.
