12 Aug 2013

Ladies Circle Botswana president, Ms Duduetsang Chappelle-Molloy says they intend setting up sustainable projects that will have a long lasting impact on the community they adopt.   

Speaking at the tea party hosted by the organisation’s Francistown Circle Number 4 at Tati River Lodge, Ms Chappelle-Molloy said they had been donating to the under privileged members of society and had realised that they needed to change the lives of the beneficiaries.

She said they wanted a project which would benefit a group of people, not just a few individuals.

She noted that the donations of food parcels, toiletries and clothes, cater for only a handful of people and they were now targetting larger numbers.   

Ms Chappelle-Molloy said they intend drilling a borehole in one of the villages to enable beneficiaries of the poverty eradication programme who have backyard gardens to water them to sustain their lives.

In order to achieve their planned goals, Ms Chappelle-Molloy appealed to Francistown Circle Number 4 members to be visible to the communities as it would help them work as a team and achieve their goals. 

“We need to mark our presence in the communities so that when we call for help they will come to our aid,” she said.

Briefing the women on the mandate of the organisation, she said it exists to promote international friendship, understanding and goodwill by encouraging members to share knowledge.

Since its formation in 1980, she said, they have supported various organisations in their projects by providing equipment and machinery for Deborah Relief Memorial hospital ante-natal wards. 

Ms Chappelle-Molloy said through fund raising activities, membership contributions and donations from other organisations, they have managed to fund their projects.

For her part, the host circle organisation chairperson, Ms Morwadi Mokwele said their circle was formed last November and has five members.

Since their establishment, they have adopted Ditladi village as their main project and have donated toiletries and clothes to the village’s needy people, and will also to donate 25 blankets received from Francistown Toyota. Ends