IHS donates to needy octogenarian

FRANCISTOWN: The Institute of Health Sciences (IHS) staff and students in Francistown donated a house to a needy 89-year-old woman on Friday.

The wheelchair-bound, Maria Dema of Matsiloje was given a furnished two and half house connected with water and electricity. The principal of IHS Francistown, Mantate Manyothwane said they met Dema in 2010 through a Somerset East social worker where she (Dema) used to live.

Manyothwane said that after meeting Dema, they realised that she did not own a plot or a proper house, as she lived in a small house that she shared with her children.

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