Abject Poverty Eradication, Real Or just A Pipe Dream :: Mmegi Online

Somewhere in this edition we carry stories about the visit of assistant Minister in the office of the President, Hon Phillip Makgalelemele to Maun and his interaction with stakeholders responsible for dessimination of information and services, to some of the over 400,000 identified Batswana who live in abject poverty.

These services are in the form of entrepreneurial packages that are given to the poor to start business services mainly to government supported entities such as schools and local clinics.

The government had set itself a deadline of 2017 to complete the distribution of these packages as well as to train the beneficiaries in running SMME’S. This noble idea is indeed reflective of a serious government’s commitment to both identifying abject poverty and dealing with it in its robust poverty eradication drive.

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