IN recent years, the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) existed largely in the background, with limited impact and rarely prioritised skills development. While it was predominantly known for improving infrastructure in constituencies, the narrative is now changing. Skills development is one component that is seeing a green light, even as government continues to increase its allocation, which has now risen to K40 million. This shift has made it possible for young people like 22-year-old Vanessa Nalupumbwe from Chingola to earn a skill. She is now able to make clothes after acquiring a skill in design at the Chingola Skills Training Centre under CDF. Before she enrolled, Vanessa was a grade twelve school leaver with no hope of attending college due to...