05 May 2013

Kanye-based Mailville Charitable Youth Movement has signed Memorandum of Agreement with Makaba and Maranyane Primary Schools and Councillor Kagisanyo Tau of Nyorosi East through the Adopt-A-School initiative last Tuesday.

Through the partnership, the parties have agreed to raise funds for the most disadvantaged and needy students in Makaba and Maranyane Primary Schools for a year.

The youth organisation which was started last year in January, is doing campaigns to help the needy students who did not qualify to register with Social and Community Development (S&CD).

The chairperson of the movement, Mr Kaone Keboutlule indicated that they are a non-making profit organisation which assists government from the burden of assisting the needy students in Kanye.

Mr Keboutlule said they have already assisted in raising about P300 000 for Batho Madigele for a kidney transplant in Kanye.

Also, he said they have assisted Tlhobo CJSS to achieve impressive results after volunteering to offer tutorials to them.

 For his part, the regional education director-operations for Southern Region, Mr Motsamai Phuthego applauded the efforts made by non-governmental organisations and youth movements who found it fit to assist government in the fight against poverty.

Mr Phuthego said the Ministry of Education and Skills Development is concerned about the poor results in most schools.

He further applauded Mailville for a job well done by helping the schools produce impressive results.

He said the learning environment should be conducive for students to produce good results adding that the young ones must be moulded in a proper way to be good future leaders.

He further appealed to individuals to assist through Adopt-A-School initiative.

A representative from Botswana Association for school of the deaf, Ms Shirley Keagile said she was concerned about the deaf students adding that they were denied education.

Ms Keagile said sign languages should be included in the syllabus.

She indicated that they have partnered with Maranyane and Makaba Primary Schools for six months to teach students about sign languages.

“Batswana should be taught sign languages because deaf people are left out when communicating,” she said.

She further indicated that messages on important aspects such as HIV/AIDS were not captured well for the deaf people.

Councillor Tau said the objective to partner with Mailville was necessitated by the need to help needy students who were the most underperforming among other students in almost schools.

Mr Tau also pointed out that there was shortage of textbooks in those schools which made students to neglect their education.

He said they have selected 56 students at Maranyane Primary School to be assisted. ENDS