Monax Shelter Provides Elderly With Warm Food

Monax Shelter feeds the elderly in Metsimotlhabe PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Monax Shelter feeds the elderly in Metsimotlhabe PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Many Batswana see the issue of retirement homes as a foreign concept which in their view does not apply to ‘our’ society

Over the years, it has become visible that more and more elderly people are struggling due to many factors, be it that their children have moved to towns in search of greener pastures, or just that they have outlived their children.

The big question is what happens to those elderly people who can no longer fend for themselves? Western countries have many retirement homes, which provide the elderly with facilities for company and companionship, meals, gatherings, recreation activities and some form of health care.

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