DTCB gives D�Kar pupils diamond treatment
Staff Writer | Wednesday November 1, 2017 15:02
The pupils, mostly Basarwa, were in Gaborone for four days, as part of the company’s social responsibility programmme. DTCB adopted D’Kar Primary School in 2006 and unveiled a P2 million sponsorship for three years.
The pupils, mostly from Standard 7, toured diamonds facilities as well as sight-seeing around Gaborone.
According to DTCB’s communications manager, Kago Mmopi, the aim of the visit was to enable students an opportunity to tour and learn about DTCB’s operations, as well as to visit other monumental establishments and key areas in Gaborone such as the National Assembly, Three Chiefs Monument, amongst others.
As a rural school, D’Kar Primary School is faced with challenges of poor performance, absenteeism and dropouts. The school has generally been performing poorly in the national examinations for the past years. Pass rates at the school have been below 31% for the past four years.
The majority of pupils at the school, mostly from poor families, come from farms in the remotest areas of the Ghanzi District.
It was on the basis of the needs of the school that DTCB entered into a three-year partnership for the provision of meals, school uniform, sporting kit and related equipment.
DTCB has also established a horticulture project in partnership with the school.
D’Kar Primary School commenced operations in 1965 as a mission school operated by the Dutch Reformed Church until its operations were taken over by government in the early 1970s.