01 Nov 2016

The Department of Deeds Registry has donated basic needs to Mahalapye prison women inmates and their children.

Officially handing over the donation in Mahalapye on Friday, Ministry of Lands Management, Water and Sanitation Services’ health and safety coordinator, Ms Monosi Tau said this was part of their social responsibility objective.
Ms Tau said since the President had appealed to ministries to set aside one day per month to engage in community service activities, their ministry  acceded to the plea, hence the donation.
She noted that the ministry's departments and land boards were responding well to the call.

Ms Tau also explained that the purpose of Vision 2036 was to achieve prosperity for all, adding that prosperity had been defined as achievement and fulfillment of our individual, community and national goals at all levels.

“It is our view that as a ministry we are contributing to the achievements of Vision 2036 by reaching out to those that are underprivileged,” she said.

She said ever since 2008, their ministry had been engaging in various social responsibility activities across the country.

She noted that so far they have donated 14 houses, food hampers and toiletries, built bus stop shelters and planted trees across the country.

Ms Tau expressed with gratitude towards the Department of Deeds Registry, noting that on a yearly basis, deeds registry donated various commodities to disadvantaged people in the society.

She said in 2013, Deeds Registry donated full school uniforms, stationery and school bags to underprivileged pupils of Makobo Primary School in the Central District.

In  2014 they  again donated basic school necessities to pupils at Magotlhwane Primary School in the Southern District and last year they donated a self-contained room to a student living with disability at Tshesebe village.

She said the room was specifically designed to suit her disability needs and this year they found it fit to change direction and remember those who have been confined to correctional sectors.

Ms Tau said the sole purpose of choosing them was to show them that they were not forgotten and they were still part of the society.

 For her part the director of Deeds Registry Ms Tiny Keseabetswe said their greatest hope was that the confinement would give the inmates time to deeply introspect and leave the place with a refined character.

She urged them to seriously introspect themselves, have faith so that when they leave prison they are changed human beings. ENDS