Businessman assists Marang JSS students

Marang Junior Secondary School on Friday benefited from the initiative when businessman, Arun Kumar of Podder Investments adopted 10 needy students who did not qualify for government's social welfare programme. The 10 students were given new school uniforms, school bags and will have their annual school fees of P300 paid by the entrepreneur. A cheque of P8,400 was presented to the school towards the beneficiaries' tuition fees.

Kumar said education, as an important human investment, required that stakeholders have an active role towards its delivery. He urged parents and teachers to take seriously the responsibility to empower young people. Kumar has a number of companies under his name, among them a construction company and an airtime voucher distributor for all the three mobile networks in Botswana.