Exploring possibilities for general investment into My Home Town - type projects

The MHT Patron (Mr Alfred Masupha) recently hosted a fellowship dinner for Mr. Andrew Harris frics, fcim, Chief Executive of Partnership Projects – Preston – United Kingdom who visited the organisation in Zambia to explore possibilities for general investment into My Home Town - type projects.

Detailed information can be found in the following official correspondence from the MHT Patron.

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Dear All

I am pleased to inform you that resultant of discussions between our Dear MHT 1 and Mr. Andrew Harris frics, fcim, Chief Executive of Partnership Projects – Preston – United Kingdom with regard to general investment into My Home Town - type projects, so much in this direction, to date, has transpired.

Mr. Harris got interested in the My Home Town activities after learning of the My Home Town concept from some of the UK delegates who attended the 2009 Trade Fair here in Zambia. Mr. Harris kindly accepted to visit Zambia for about three days to have a feel of what is obtaining on the ground.

Mr. Harris was availed preliminary information from the representatives of My Home Town – England - the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson, respectively. My Home Town’s initial attraction was specific to Industrial Villages that Partnership Projects Ltd build and this was with a presently ongoing project of My Home Town on the outskirts of Choma – Kabumbwe – in mind, where something similar may be considered as a Pilot Project, which if successful, could be extended to other localities.

In the fruition of envisaged plans, Mr. Harris accompanied by Mr. Phil Kaila arrived in Zambia on Sunday, 8th November and were met at the Lusaka International Airport by the Coordinator – Projects - Mr. Rocky Sombe, Member M/s Alice Makukula
and Mr. Humphrey Lombe - Consultant : Media Communication and International Relations.

In the evening, Messrs Harris and Kaila were treated to a Fellowship Dinner, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Sombe, where many of the Organisation’s Lusaka based members were invited and turned up.

Tuesday 10th November 2009, the team set off for Choma but stopped over in Monze to pay a courtesy call on the Board Chairperson - Mr. George Cornhill, with a view to Mr. Harris getting an overall feel for My Home Town. The traveling party were hosted to lunch at the Board Chairperson’s residence. After this, Mr. Harris and his team then drove to Choma where they paid a courtesy call on the Patron – Mr. Alfred Masupha – at his residence at 20:00hrs. Thereafter, Mr. Harris, Mr. Kaila and Mr. Sombe, were hosted to a Fellowship Dinner at the residence of the Patron, to which a cross section of members were invited and turned up for the event.

Attached hereto are photographs of the Fellowship Dinner at the Patron’s residence which speak for themselves of the joy and warmth that enveloped the event.

Wednesday, morning, 11th November: Mr. Harris and his team traveled to Kabumbwe Village to go and see for themselves what My Home Town was striving to achieve in terms of the concept of villages that Partnership Projects Limited propagate.

Wednesday, Afternoon : Mr. Harris and his team visited the Town Clerk of the Municipality town of Choma where fruitful discussions were held, focusing on the long term plans of the town in terms of envisaged development, particularly the
aspect of tertiary education.

Thereafter, Mr. Harris and his team left Choma and drove to Livingstone.

Thursday 12th November:

Morning : Mr. Harris and his team will visit the Mighty Victoria Falls.

Afternoon : Mr. Harris and his team will hold a meeting with the Town Clerk, His Worship the Mayor of the City of Livingstone, including other civic leaders, pertaining to the exploration of an interface of collaboration between the
Council of the City of Livingstone and My Home Town – with the inspiration of Partnership Projects Limited .

Thursday Evening: Mr Harris and his team shall be treated to a Boat Cruise on the “African Queen Boat”

Friday, 13th November:

Messrs. Harris and Mr. Kaila depart Livingstone International Airport and fly off to the Republic of South Africa.

On behalf of our Dear MHT 1, Chairperson of the Board of Directors and Directors, Management, the general membership - world wide - of our organization and indeed on my own behalf, I wish to take this opportunity of thanking most profoundly, Mr. Harris, Mr. Kaila for setting aside time from their businesses in the United Kingdom, to come to Zambia for the cause of all of us members of My Home Town.

Special thanks, too, go to Mr. Humphrey Lombe - Consultant: Media, Communication and International Relations. Co-ordinator: Projects, Member – Miss Alice Makukula, the Town Clerk of the Municipality of the Town of Choma and all those of our members who are too numerous to acknowledge, individually, for all their effort, without which the trip of Mr. Harris and Mr. Kaila, would not have been the success that it has, undoubtedly, been!

Submitted for your kind information!

Regards,

Alfred Masupha.
MHT Patron