Keeping Hope Alive

Throughout her post-schooling life, she has never had the opportunity to pursue her education, nor has she had any luck in finding a job. Being raised up in a poverty-stricken family, she says she did not have the means to further her studies.

She saw herself leaving her home village of Mmutlane in the Central District to look for a job in the city of Francistown. However, she has never had luck in finding a job ever since she came to the city. "I have always been rejected whenever I look for a job," she told Monitor in an interview. Now, the 29-year-old mother of one wakes up before sunset each day and starts walking to the District Labour Offices in Francistown, a few kilometres from where she stays with her uncle in Block One. Upon arrival at the labour offices, she joins hundreds other jobseekers and for the next few hours of each day they laze around under the shade of trees that are in the vicinity with the hope of getting employment someday.