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Help Others To Help Yourself

Our Foundation, the Healthy Families Foundation, is currently leading an 18-day Family Building Campaign in the village of Serowe.

The campaign has been so awesome as we teach more than 100 people every morning a different topic from our marriage book, namely: Unmet Expectations, Communication, Preparing for Marriage, His Needs/Her Needs, Love Languages, Children, Finances, Gender Based Violence, Spirituality, In-Laws, Affair proofing your marriage, Substance abuse, and Conflict Resolution. After we teach these 100, those 100 then go out and teach 10-20 others. The morning sessions are all available to watch on our Facebook page, Talking with the Thabas. We hope and pray each lesson will encourage and teach you on the aforementioned topics.

This is a free resource meant to strengthen relationships all over SADC for the five countries I write this article for each week. Now, that is the background. I want to switch to where I am coming from right now. I am coming from the police. Since they know we are in town to teach about healthy family relations, they called me to ask me to help with a GBV case. Sadly, these are all too common these days. Here is what was interesting. So far, we are on day two of our campaign here and the first two chapters in the book deal with Unmet Expectations and Communication. Some people say “What does that have to do with domestic abuse?” Everything.

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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