Botswana Book Project donates to Maoka
Staff Writer | Tuesday March 22, 2022 06:00
The organisation, which serves as a catalyst for literacy, has up to date donated books and other necessities to different schools and regions in the country.
The most recent was a donation of 60,000 books to be shared by 48 schools in the Kgatleng region. This followed many other donations, some of which were done directly to schools.
The organisation on Friday made yet another donation, this time around to Maoka Junior Senior Secondary School in Gaborone.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, Botswana Book Project director, Ezekiel Malenya explained that the donation came about as a result of a request made by one of the senior teachers at the school, Mogomotsi Bontsibokae, for the organisation to support the school.
He said it was through this call that Botswana Book Project donated 2,000 text books to the school. “The text books are not curriculum based books, but rather books for cultivating the culture of reading in order for them to be able to read and enrich their vocabulary, which will lead to the students being able to express themselves confidently and eloquently. The donation also includes100 solar study lights, which are to be given to the vulnerable students who do not have electricity in their households yet they have to study, do assignments and compete with other students who have electricity in their homes,” he said.
“The solar lights have a small solar panel, which are charged on daily basis. After listening to the teachers that they also have challenge of electricity blackouts while they are preparing for exams we promised to give them 30 solar lights to assist them. We also gave them a laptop, two computers one to be used by the deputy school head who did not have any while he is supposed to be the one facilitating typing of exams and we promised to give them three more computers. The organisation also gave out 300 sanitary pads to be given to female students.”
Malenya further explained that this is a programme that the organisation has started after touring many areas of the country and realising that there are still some female students who miss school during their monthly menstrual cycle as they cannot afford sanitary pads.
He added that the initiative will assist in tackling one of the challenges that the female students experience.
“As an organisation we strive to support and implement the government’s RE-SET AGENDA towards knowledge-based economy,” he added.