By Chisomo Phiri
As stakeholders and individuals continue helping people affected by Cyclone Freddy, the country’s renowned innovator and entrepreneur Kondwani Kachamba Ngwira has given himself a challenge to construct about 5 to 10 standard houses in ten days for cyclone Freddy survivors.
In an interview with 247 Malawi, Ngwira, who is also advocating for Sustainable Disaster Management said he is targeting displaced victims from Zomba, Chiradzulu and Thyolo.
“Yes we will construct a number of these houses for our brothers and sisters Displaced with cyclone in the south .
“We will also consider Mzimba side , some residence are residing in risky areas 2 Days ago they experienced madzi from kuphiri more similar to what happened in the south hence we should not wait for disaster the best is to incorporate them in the programme to prevent future tears.
“Pray that God will give us the grace to finance so that we push more and more . Pray that God will connect us to people and orgs that will partner with us and change our Malawi,” he said
Ngwira disclosed that an allocation of 5 billion Kwacha from the disaster donation, the country would manage to construct about 1400 houses in six months.
He said he has already done with construction of one standard house that has built in 8 days only and taken a total direct cost of 1.7 Million.
Said Kachamba :”Tomorrow I will provide all designs , costs in specific so that those willing can copy and start constructing either for business , their constituencies e.t.c
Please i encourage you to copy this and do it .
“No need to hide information after all those who want to copy will build in Malawi and this must be encouraged.”
Recently, the department of disaster management announced that there are over 140,000 displaced households in the southern Malawi because of cyclone Freddy, most of whom are residing in about 700 camps erected across the affected 13 districts.
