Police officers’ spouses raise K6m for widows

Police officers’ spouses on Friday eased the plight of about 256 police officers’ widows with donations of K20 000 and a wrapper (chitenje) to each of them.
Speaking in an interview during the ceremony, Ruth Kachama, the wife of the Inspector General Lexten Kachama, said deaths of husbands should not render one destitute; hence the intervention.
She said: “We know K20 000 may not be a lot of money, but if used properly it can make a difference. Some of the women who will receive this money are already engaged in small-scale businesses and the money will just boost their enterprises.

“There are many widows out there whose husbands were police officers and we will make sure that every year we reach out to them.”
Kachama said the money was raised voluntarily through the welfare section which was started in the 1970s by the first Malawian police chief Mc J. Kamwana.

One of the beneficiaries, Chrissy Mtimaukanena who is based at Mtakataka in Dedza, commended the initiative, saying it will boost her fizzes and thobwa businesses.
She said: “When I lost my husband [in a minibus accident last year] the world turned upside down. Some of my children could miss school for a number of weeks due to lack of school fees, but now with this cash injection my business will g