Zambian grannies play football to keep fit

STORY: Zambian grannies play football to keep fit DATELINE: July 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:19 LOCATION: Lusaka CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of grannies playing football 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ELIZABETH MTONGA, Manager of YASA Grannies team 3. various of training 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinyanja): MISOZI PHIRI, 51-year-old player 5. various of training 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinyanja): MELIYA MWALE, 65-year-old player STORYLINE: At a community playing ground in Zambia's capital Lusaka, a group of elderly women have gathered to play football. Unlike young women who take training in order to compete in tournaments, these grannies are doing it to keep healthy. Formed last year, the team is one of the teams under the Youth Armory Soccer Academy (YASA), a project managed by the Youth Armory Organization. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ELIZABETH MTONGA, Manager of YASA Grannies team "Many women who come here, they are grannies, are from 45, I think the oldest is 74 years old. Apart from keeping fit, others way back (when

Zambia youth shift to motorbike courier business to make ends meet

STORY: Zambia youth shift to motorbike courier business to make ends meet DATELINE: July 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:09 LOCATION: Lusaka CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the riders 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinyanja): STEVEN HANG'ANDU, Vice-Chairman of the Downtown Bikers 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinyanja): GIFT NYIRONGO, Rider 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinyanja): GIFT NYIRONGO, Rider 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): VINCENT SIACHIYASA, Rider 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinyanja): ACRAS MAPULANGA, Rider 7. SOUNDBITE 6 (English): DIANA MWANGALA, Rider STORYLINE: As formal jobs continue to elude many young people in Zambia, some young people have decided to find alternative ways of earning incomes through the informal sector. Some have since joined the highly growing business of providing courier services using motorbikes, which is slowly gaining popularity in Lusaka, the country's capital. A visit to Downtown Mall, one of the popular shopping malls in the city, found a group of young people at the back of the mall with their motorbikes waiting