Rotary Club donates wheelchairs
Pini Bothoko | Tuesday April 15, 2014 12:20
Receiving the wheelchairs on behalf of the school, Setlalekgosi JSS schoolhead, Majaga Ndlovu, applauded the Rotary Club for showing care for the disabled students.
Ndlovu said by donating wheelchairs the Club was fulfilling one of the Vision 2016 pillars being, ‘A Compassionate, Just and Caring Nation’. He encouraged them to continue showing love to people with disabilities.
Ndlovu said the wheelchairs were timely as the ones the students were using were no longer in good condition. “You have done a huge thing in the hearts of these children. Their smiles show that you have donated something important to their lives. These wheelchairs will ease movement at school,” he said.Handing over the wheelchairs, Rotary Club member, Charmaine De’Ath, said they were a non-profit making organisation that sourced funds internationally to help underprivileged Batswana.
De’Ath said they received a donation of 60 wheelchairs from England and so far seven villages have been identified to benefit.
She said they would be donating the wheelchairs to beneficiaties in the North East and Central Districts.
“Before we donated these wheelchairs, we visited the school and looked at the conditions of the current wheelchairs and established a need for wheelchairs.
“We hope they will ease movement of the beneficiaries to and from the school and within the school during the lessons,” she said.