MYAA to feature celebs in basketball tourney
Friday, March 26, 2010
The facilities at Mma-Masire Grounds run at The Botswana National Youth Centre (BNYC) are using the basketball tourney to showcase the facilities and want young people to know that they are freely available for use. They include football, volleyball, basketball, aerobics and gyms. There are also counselling services and sexual reproductive health centres. Mma-Masire Grounds serve as the headquarters of BNYC. YOGO, a young people's HIV/AIDS information dissemination NGO, is also located here. The basketball tournament is part of the Gaborone region's Month of Youth Against AIDS (MYAA) activities. It is sponsored by BPOMAS, Metropolitan Life, Kika Printers and Creative Business Solutions, among others.
Some of the celebrities to feature in the tournament include movie star and television personality Ntsoro and beauty queen Malebogo Marumoagae. House kwasa star Vee and rapper VS of O Icheke fame have also confirmed their participation, as has Duma FMs' Morning Show co-host Moses Maruping aka Rude Boy Necta.
RB2 will also have its own basketball team made up of Lady of Soul Tebogo Ragontse, K-Love, T.H.A.B.O., Pauline, DJ O'Neal and Prince. On-the-spot entertainment will be provided by djs Sly, Sid and O'Neal.
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...