Include the boy child in UN plans
Friday, October 13, 2023 | 10 Views |
Every year, the world commemorates the Day of the Girl Child and speaks to pertinent issues in the lives of the Girl Child. The opportunity also offers the girls a platform to assert themselves in their journey to adulthood.
This week’s commemorations were excitedly different from the previous years in that the UN family and stakeholders went an extra mile by introducing job shadowing into the programme, which gave the girls a historic experience in the world of work. We take this opportunity to thank all those who gave the girls an experience of their lifetime at the work place.
The heartbreaking reports carried elsewhere on this publication of a woman killed in Metsimotlhabe and four family members perishing near Metsimaswaana Bridge are, devastatingly, not isolated incidents. They represent the sharp, painful tip of a weekend that has seen far too many collisions, injuries, and losses on the roads. This alarming spike in fatalities is a screaming siren we cannot ignore. It compels a direct and urgent plea to every...