Letshego To Instill Responsible Financial Practices
Monday, September 04, 2017
Chris Low
During the presentation of the group’s results for the half-year ended June 30, 2017 in Gaborone on Friday, the financial services group said it would also imbed a social performance measurement system across the business from 2017.
Group managing director, Chris Low indicated that during 2016, following the conclusion of a Social Environment Due Diligence (SEDD), the group embarked on a social impact survey with over 7,000 Letshego customers across five countries of operation, which are Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Kenya and Tanzania.
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...