FLOODS IN ZAMBIA

Zambia is one of the Southern African countries hard hit by the floods. These wrecking waters have left a trail of distruction in many, but mostly southern parts of Zambia. Visiting the flood hit area of southern Zambia was an eye opening exercise recently. People have been displaced, animals have died, crop fields have been washed away, road and bridges have disappeared is all that is left of these flooded areas. Socio-economic activities in the flooded areas have come to a stand still because for instance, how do farmers transport farming inputs to the villages when the roads and bridges have been washed away. How do children go to school when the only bridge in the district has become a yawning gap across the river banks? Just how do children access education when the limited number of classroom blocks is now accommodating people displaced by floods? This is the situation in most parts of Southern Zambia.
The only observation that analyst is that the floods have become an annual phenomenon. But even if they have become an annual occurence, the leadership and even the victims themselves in Zambia still has to come to terms to handle them. The leaders have many responsibilities such as securing logistics for the victims and even sensitisation for people in the low areas to move to upper lands when its the rainy season. our leadership, which is basically politicians are always talking about climate change, which is blame for the change in weather patterns, have made little progress, if any in putting in place policies that could curb climate change. Its incredible!!!
But I believe that with an amalgamation of efforts and genuine political commitment, these weather challenges could be overcome.