MEJN Executive Director and SAPSN Secretary General Dalisto Kubalasa, says ordinary people must be given the opportunity to be heard and offer solutions to challenges affecting the SADC region.
Kubalasa made the remarks in his welcome address at the 2013 SADC Peoples summit in Lilongwe. He says the summit provides a platform for people to vent their holy anger, frustration, and a thirst for a better livelihood.
“We are part of the solution not part of the problem and we can provide solutions if given an opportunity by our leadership,” says Kubalasa.
He further says civil society organizations have a strong belief to change and shape the destiny of the region.
“Just as all of us citizens before and after we get appointed into all the different positions of leadership in our communities, churches….our whole being revolves around a greater service ushering the greater good in our wards,’ he says.
He adds that theme “Reclaiming SADC for People’s Development and Solidarity: Ensuring our natural resources benefit the people not Elites and Multi-national corporations” has come at a right time.
“We have to make sure that our government’s our SADC has a bearing in improving the lives of our people in the homes.
Feel free to discuss as that is crucial in bringing out challenges, opportunity and solutions that ordinary people are facing,” Kubalasa says.
The SAPSN secretary general also says that the meeting is a testimony of people’s thirst for a better livelihood in the region.
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