Botswana product set to enter US market

It is the brainchild of Peter Mabeo, a Mogoditshane-born man who joined the woodwork industry approximately 11 years ago. "I had just finished schooling and I had nowhere to go, so I decided to go into woodwork because I had a background in the field," he says. Mabeo started with a group of other unemployed men doing piece jobs in Tlokweng. 

During the struggle they were able to get tenders from individuals, companies and government. Their work includes partitioning and they get jobs from architects and interior designers.