MultiChoice has donated 10 GOtv decoders equipped with a one-year full subscription on each to the Zambia Correctional Service (ZCS).
The donation, which is part of its Festive Campaign is aimed at sharing the joy of the festive season with inmates by giving them a chance to access exciting content that seeks to inform, educate and entertain the inmates during this festive season and after.
“We hope that through this donation inmates may delight in some of the educative and spiritual content available on GOtv this festive season and that in some way this can help ease their time in the correctional facilities” said Mrs. Leah Kooma, Managing Director, MultiChoice Zambia.
“As a business deep-rooted in the communities in which we operate, we want to share the joy of the festive holiday season and beyond by bringing educative and spiritual programming to inmates in correctional facilities” she added.
Speaking when she received the donation, on behalf of the Zambia Correctional Service Commissioner General, Zambia Correctional Services Deputy Regional Commander, Evelyn Simoonga, said: “We are very grateful to MultiChoice Zambia for this thoughtful gesture as it will go a long way in helping the inmates to be informed and entertained as well as have their spirits uplifted with religious content available on GOtv.’’
The 10 correctional Facilities around the country receiving the decoders include Katombora Reformatory School, Chainama Correctional Hospital, Kabwe Female Correctional Facility, Mwembeshi Correctional Facility, Livingstone Correctional Facility, Kafinsa Correctional Facility, Kansenji Correctional Facility, Chipata Central Correctional Facility, Mukobeko Maximum Facility and Mpima Remand Correctional Facility.
On Wednesday 22nd December MultiChoice donated 10 decoders to the Children’s Hospital at the University Teaching Hospital.