All are created equal, but..

At birth, all children are equal. But subsequently, a cocktail of factors ranging from social and economic to political and even geographic, play an important role on how successful each child will be.

A critical building block for this success is the provision of Early Childhood Development (ECD), which involves pre-primary education mainly in the form of a nursery/kindergarten.

Yesterday, an ECD conference in Gaborone heard that only 22 percent of children under the age of six in Botswana have access to this crucial building block. Nursery or kindergarten education is a springboard to Standard One and accelerated achievements throughout the various tiers of the learning experience to employment or self-employment.

Editor's Comment
UDC's 100 Days: Please deliver your promises!

We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...

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