Miss Tertiary Francistown to enchant revelers
Lesedi Mkhutshwa | Thursday October 27, 2016 15:50
Miss Tertiary Francistown is an annual beauty contest for tertiary students in Francistown, which is a premier and a top class event consisting of fashion, edutainment and lots of entertainment.
The event brings tertiary students together by building relationships amongst them so they can be able to assist each other academically or in any aspect of life during their stay in tertiary school.
The co-organiser of the beauty pageant, Neo Thuma, said the beauty pageant is an initiative that unites all the tertiary institutions students as well as addressing issues affecting them.
She said the objective of the beauty pageant is to nurture tertiary students who will be able to represent or portray a good image of tertiary institutions in the city.
She added that the other goal of the pageant is to contribute to the society through edutainment and developing the entreprenueral spirit amongst tertiary students in order to prepare the students for the corporate world.
Thuma further said the event will be an extraordinary opportunity for the competitors to enhance their talents by introducing them to the entertainment industry, which includes modeling music, photography and media.
She said the first Miss Tertiary Francistown was successful because they managed to attract more than six tertiary schools to be part of the competition.
“We received positive response from students as well as the community of Francistown through our different social media pages such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter,” she said.
She said in preparation for the beauty pageant they will host a boot camp a week before the grand finale at Adansonia Hotel, where the contestants will be given empowerment classes and team building activities.
She added that the activities on the main day will include talent show by contestants, fashion show, as well as entertainment by various artists and disc jokers (DJ’s).
She indicated that the queen will address problems encountered by tertiary students such as Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s), teenage pregnancy, rape, alcohol and drug abuse to name but a few.
“We need the beauties to come up with campaigns where they hold motivational talks to their fellow students.
Not only that, the participants should tackle health and social issues. As students we do not take seriously lifestyle diseases such as sugar diabetes, high blood pressure to be a treat to our lives because we believe they only attack the elderly, therefore the beauties’ task is to come up with ways to attract tertiary students to get tested or encourage them to use preventative methods of chronic diseases,” she said.
Thuma revealed that the participants are from different tertiary institutions in the area namely; ABM, Institute of Health Science (IHS), Botho University, Baisago University, Francistown College of Education, Tonota College of Education, Botswana Accountancy College, among others.