The facts on SPERA

*The concept for SPERA was retained when MEP was dropped, and SPERA was further defined as a support programme in a proposal submitted in 2006.  At this time, SPERA focused primarily on multilingual education, with the goal of providing access to home language education and simultaneously improving access to Setswana and English.  The 2006 proposal also contained a suggestion for the creation of an independent NGO, a suggestion that was later dropped in favor of housing SPERA under the Research Centre for San Studies of the University of Botswana.

*Over the past four years, the ideals for SPERA have continuously been refined following input from key stakeholders. SPERA is now re-forming as a vibrant research branch of the Research Centre for San Studies at the University of Botswana, which was launched on April 19, 2010. It will not be a separate NGO.