G/hope moves to scrap school donkey carts
Friday, June 19, 2020
When the donkey carts programme was introduced a couple of years ago, it was met with a lot of resistance after the government insisted it was the only option.
Nominated Councillor, Kenaleone Motsaathebe argued recently that transporting pupils by donkey carts was not only unsuitable but very irrelevant in this day of the fourth industrial revolution, the digital era and the upward mobility of Botswana from a middle income economy to an upper-middle income economy.
The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...