Kolobetso: The Passionate Caregiver

Caroline Kolobetso
Caroline Kolobetso

FRANCISTOWN: A retired nursing aide, Caroline Kolobetso, 59, has turned her passion to care for others into a profitable business through home care and therapy service due to the gap that exists in that market. 

After 22 years of working at the Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital (NRH), Kolobetso, who is a widow and mother of five, resigned from her post as a nurse aide to look for greener pastures in providing supportive care and medical treatment to the sick and elderly.

In an interview with Business Monitor, Kolobetso said she took a deliberate decision to opt for early retirement at NRH in 2005 when she saw a niche in the market of the home-based care and therapy business.

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