Lucas gives wheels to the disabled

Lucas PIC:  KEOAGILE BONANG
Lucas PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

FRANCISTOWN: Driven by passion to change lives of the disadvantaged people in society, especially the disabled, nominated councillor Modiri Jojo Lucas is engaged in charity work to give hope to the hopeless.

At the age of 40, the politician has purposed it upon himself to change many lives for the better even those that life has condemned to the backyards just because they cannot walk or do anything on their own.

What motivated Lucas to be running around searching for wheelchairs for those who can’t walk on their own is a picture that he saw at Block One, the city’s low-income location within the Francistown South constituency.  It is here that he encountered an elderly woman who was confined to her room without any opportunity to go outside.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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