Monday, March 23, 2020

Important Notice 23 March, 2020

Dear members,

Please review this important notice from DISA Zambia Executive Committee.


Saturday, March 7, 2020

Mezze Style Cooking Class 5 March, 2020

Welcome to our first cooking class in 2020!
Maggy Antonopoulou, the chef of our March class, showed us how to prepare Mezze style lunch.

Chef Maggy
The delicious menu is here:

Spanakopitakia: Greek spinach pies with filo pastry;
Tiropitakia: Greek cheese pies with filo pastry;
Keftedakia: Greek meat balls;
Feta cheese salad with spinach, crisp bread, sumac and pine nuts (Moroccan);
Pistachio and Feta cheese dip (Persian);
Filo pastry baskets with Asian beef filing (Asian).

Delicious food
Thank you Maggy for this well organized cooking class and your hospitality!
Thanks to all ladies participating in the class. We managed to raise K3400 for DISA charity projects!

Exploring the menu 
Work in progress
Work in progress
Hands-on

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

DISA Annual General Meeting 25 February, 2020

DISA Annual General Meeting took place on February 25th 2020 at Southern Sun Ridgeway Hotel.
A fun ice-breaker game was played before the beginning of the meeting.
Meeting in progress
Chairlady, Treasurer and Acting Projects Chair delivered their annual reports. The members were happy to hear the successful results of 2019-2020 term.
Chairlady Ines is delivering her report
Treasurer Mila is delivering her report
Acting Chair of Projects Daniel is delivering her speech

The election of the new Executive Committee for the year term 2020-2021 took place afterwards. The candidates introduced themselves briefly.
New committee members are introducing themselves
All the candidates were voted into office unanimously. Here is the list of our new Executive Committee:

  • Chair: Dot Mead
  • Vice Chair: Melanie Segers
  • Secretary: Debbie Marsh
  • Treasurer: Liudmila (Mila) van Niekerk
  • Projects Chair: Daniel Bezuidenhout
  • General Committee members: Joan Cochrane, Jennifer Norman, Jill Penny, Kala Iyengar

As part of a tradition of an exchange between the Chair, Ines and Dot handed over letters of Thank You and Welcome.
Traditional exchange 
Ines is welcoming the new board
Newly elected Chairlady Dot is delivering her speech
Meeting in progress
We wish the new committee every success in its endeavours. Looking forward to another productive year ahead!