Japan agency brings 23 volunteers to Botswana
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Here to help: From left to right, Misa Namiuchi, Chitose Hirase and Yosuke Omikai. PIC: KEBOFHE MATHE
JICA programme officer, Mothusi Tiyedze, said that the volunteers’s visit was under a bilateral agreement between Botswana and Japan to exchange knowledge and skills. The current 23 volunteers will be in Botswana for two years.
“JICA volunteers have been dispatched to many different parts of Botswana to undertake various technical assignments. They come to Botswana with the motto ‘together with the local community’, live and work together with the communities in Botswana, speak the same language of the community and carry out activities with an emphasis on raising self reliant efforts while fostering mutual understanding,” he said.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...