Cllrs urged to help social workers in schools

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A lot of social workers in Gaborone are not working closely with schools in identifying needy students, Assistant Minister of Local Government, Botlogile Tshireletso has told the Gaborone City Council (GCC).

Addressing councillors yesterday, she said that while in other schools there was close cooperation with the social workers, it was non-existent with other schools. 

She urged the councillors to encourage and not supervise the two stakeholders to work closely for the sake of the students in need of government aid.  "There are students who take ARVs who need to have eaten first and some might be suffering after losing their parents to the disease. The social workers need to know this information and how many orphans are in the schools because the school can't have this information," she said.

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