{"id":23974,"date":"2026-02-06T15:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=23974"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:43:25","slug":"amidst-cholera-outbreak-caritas-zambia-donates-wash-supplies-to-lusaka-ministry-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/amidst-cholera-outbreak-caritas-zambia-donates-wash-supplies-to-lusaka-ministry-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0ZAMBIA: Amidst Cholera Outbreak, Caritas Zambia Donates WASH Supplies to Lusaka Ministry of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Sandra Kunda<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, February 4, Caritas Zambia, with support from Save the Children International, donated assorted Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) items to the Ministry of Health in Lusaka, in response to the ongoing cholera outbreak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking during the handover, Caritas Zambia Programs Officer\u00a0Eugine Ng\u2019andu\u00a0said the support was provided under the\u00a0<strong>Anticipatory <\/strong>Action Project, which is supported by Save the Children International.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Ng\u2019andu disclosed that the donated items include\u00a04,400 bottles of chlorine, 3,300 sachets of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS), 3,000 bars of soap, 300 bottles of liquid soap, and 40 containers of disinfectant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that the items will be distributed to various communities, including\u00a0Chainda,\u00a0as part of efforts to prevent and control the spread of cholera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>END\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Kunda On Wednesday, February 4, Caritas Zambia, with support from Save the Children International,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23999,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23974\/revisions\/23999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}