STATE-of-the-art infrastructure and services have ceased to be a phenomenon experienced only in urban parts of the country. With enhanced CDF allocations in recent years, many peri-urban and rural parts of Zambia now have standard classroom infrastructure, clinics and medical equipment aimed at improving local lives. Lusaka Province Local Government Administrator Charlstone Hamulyata has praised the impact of CDF projects but stressed the urgent need for teachers’ houses to accompany newly built rural schools. Speaking during a tour of CDF projects in Chongwe Constituency, Hamulyata said the quality of infrastructure in the area was impressive, noting that such standards had never been seen before in rural areas. “I have visited several schools in Chongwe that have been constructed by CDF,...