YDF beneficiaries dodge loan repayment workshop
Thursday, October 15, 2015
The workshop, which was convened by the YDF Gaborone district office under the auspices of the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, was targeted at the funded youth who are defaulting on their loan repayments.
Despite the low attendance by the youth, the workshop carried on with about 10 out of the 60 invited beneficiaries in attendance.
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...