Brilliant minds

Gothataone Moeng | Friday June 27, 2014 17:25

The All Brilliant Minds Organisation (ALBRIMO) will next month launch their ‘Ngwaga O le Nna Ke Mo’ campaign which, they hope, will both motivate and challenge completing students to aim high in their Junior Certificate (JC) and Botswana General Certificate in Secondary Education (BGCSE) exam.

In an interview with Mmegi yesterday, founding president of ALBRIMO Goitsemang Khutsafalo, said under the campaign, the organisation will have intensive empowerment sessions as well as free tutoring services for students registered with them.  The empowerment sessions, dubbed “Buckle Up” seminars, seek to give students inspiration beyond results for passing their exams.

“The sessions are to inspire students, to ask them to look beyond their exam results.  We want them to think beyond that, to help them become worthy citizens and leaders of tomorrow,” Khutsafalo told Mmegi yesterday. He said the sessions are particularly addressed to students who may have lost hope about their future. “I have been there,” said Khutsafalo. “I know what it means to lose hope.  It started with myself, looking at other students and thinking that if they could make it, then so could I.”

As part of the ‘Ngwaga O le Nna ke Mo’ campaign, ALBRIMO will also offer free tutoring services for students that resgister with them.  Khutsafalo said that although they currently have 10 volunteer tutors they work with, if they get a large pool of students they can get more tutors. The tutors are all tertiary students, who will help students with Mathematics and Science-related subjects, but could also help students with whatever subjects they need help with.

The campaign will also include a Mass Revision, in which the completing students revise together to give each other study tips  and help each other, Khutsafalo said. He said last year they worked with students from Nanogang and Motswedi Junior Secondary Schools, as well as Gaborone and Ledumang Senior Secondary Schools. ALBRIMO is a registered non-profit making organisation, established in 2012, with the mandate of helping students and contributing to Botswana’s vision of an educated and informed nation.

“This was the answer to the problems we have of poor academic performance. The country aspires to have an educated and informed nation, but recent results have contradicted that vision. Students face a lot of challenges, and we wanted to lend a hand,” Khutsafalo said.