Importance of early years education to children

Access to education in Botswana significantly gained momentum when the country discovered diamonds at Orapa, Letlhane and later Jwaneng. Revenues from diamonds were used to build schools around the country and it suffices for me to mention that we have a school in almost all the villages in this country.

Of course credit also goes to the country’s inaugural leaders who adopted a developmental state approach leveraging on human capital development and democracy as envisaged by all constitutional democracies. Our belief as a country has always been to put people first. Over the years it has become apparent that there is a need to focus more on access to quality pre-primary education. It has been proven that once you get the foundation right, then the subsequent levels of education become easy to deal with.