A key objective of our final trip to Zambia was to use it make some noise around Kit Yamoyo, to celebrate its legacy and reaffirm the commitment of the government and private sector to the product. The planning for this began back in Mar-2023 when I asked James Thornton, who had been the British High […]
Final Visit to Zambia – Week 1
23 June 2023 by
It’s been five years since our involvement in Zambia ceased. It ended formally at the Last Learning & Steering Group Meeting on 6-Sep-2018 and we’ve not been back since. Reportedly, things have been carrying on without us. Now we are here we can see for ourselves. The reason for the trip is to tie up […]
Kit Yamoyo adverts now in place on MSL trucks
14 January 2016 by
Image credit: Dr Bonface Fundafunda This is something we never thought would happen. The national distributor of medicines for the public sector in Zambia, Medical Stores Limited (MSL), is now carrying adverts for Kit Yamoyo on their trucks. This will complement the roll-out of Kit Yamoyo at Shoprite stores as Kit Yamoyo starts appearing on […]
Milestone agreement signed
13 November 2015 by
MSL’s Managing Director (Dr Fundafunda) and KZF’s Executive Director (Mr Msimuko) sign MOU This week (11-Nov-15) Medical Stores Limited (MSL), Zambia’s parastatal medicines distributor, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with our strategic, frontline partner, the Zambian NGO Keepers Zambia Foundation (KZF). As part of this agreement MSL will distribute 452,000 of the Government-branded ORS and Zinc […]
Parallel processing towards the launch of the trial
2 August 2012 by
ColaLife is now cooking with gas! There is so much going on as we approach the trial launch in September. All partners are working in parallel towards the launch. Yesterday (1/8/12) was day 3 of the training for the enumerators recruited by our local monitoring and evaluation partner, RuralNet, at UNZA (the University of Zambia). […]
Zambia Diary | Day 4 | Contact with SABMiller
14 October 2010 by
The big news from today is that I have made contact with the right person in SABMiller and we are going to meet on Saturday. We were secretly getting a bit concerned about this! The person we will be meeting is Chibamba Kanyama who is the Corporate Affairs Director at Zambian Breweries, a subsidiary of […]
