Lepako promotes healthy living through culture :: Mmegi Online

It is not everyday a person gets a chance to play, get healthy and learn their culture at the same time. However, Lepako Events Farm is giving all these to the old and the young a chance to experience these under one roof, at the same time.

According to the organisation’s Keitumetse Sekhute-Segokotlo, Lepako was born last year on the realisation that the Setswana culture was diminishing each day. She said it hit her when she realised that child who is in Standard 7 did not know traditional games and even domestic animals.

“I was shocked when I realised that my child didn’t even know anything about farm life. He didn’t know how to milk a goat and was completely clueless about traditional games. I realised that many children out there might be going through the same ordeal and it was upon me to do something out it.

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