Red Cross, Coca-Cola team-up to aid Kweneng West during COVID-19

The Botswana Red Cross Society has utilised Coca-Cola Foundation’s $50,000 (approximately P600, 000) donation to assist hundreds of vulnerable villagers in the Kweneng West district.

Coca-Cola Foundation made the funds available to the humanitarian organisation in May and the donation has already begun to benefit hundreds of people in different villages in Kweneg West.

The three phased project, is already 90 percent complete and received considerable buy-in from the village leadership, according to Botswana Red Cross Society chief executive officer, Kutlwano Mukokomani.

Editor's Comment
Bravo BDF for the first step addressing GBV

The statement, whilst some may say, comes a little bit too late, is timely as gender-based violence (GBV) continues to haunt the country. A week hardly passes without reports of a wife, a girlfriend or boyfriend being killed by their intimate partners. Just recently, a high-ranking officer stationed at Glen Valley Barracks reportedly murdered his wife and has so far managed to evade arrest. It is also alleged that another soldier murdered his...

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