31 Jul 2019

Boteti Sub-district commissioner, Mr Ewetse Selelo has implored poverty eradication beneficiaries to treat the initiative not just as a government programme but a business project that can improve their lives.

Officiating during the opening of the poverty eradication mass training in Mopipi recently, Mr Selelo said 217 beneficiaries from Mmadikola, Xhumo, Mokobaxane and Kedia would be trained and packaged.

Mr Selelo said the decision to conduct poverty eradication mass packaging was to address a large backlog of projects awaiting to be packaged in Boteti. Beneficiaries, he said, would be part of history because if the projects were profitable, poverty eradication would be achieved.

 Mr Selelo said statistics indicated a reduction in poverty levels in Boteti due to easy access to government programmes. He noted that about 100 projects were packaged in the last mass packaging event that was held in Rakops.

Kgosi Gowinnemang Matlhare of Mopipi urged beneficiaries to treat the training with the seriousness it deserved.

Assistant economist, Ms Nomsa Bakani said mass packaging was to establish value chain potential leading to maximisation of impact on the community.

She indicated that the 217 beneficiaries trained would be packaged on August 2, adding that at least 20 poverty eradication beneficiaries from various districts were expected to exhibit.

Their products, she said, would be drawn from the existing 45 packages as well as key projects such as small and medium machinery products.

The expected outcomes of mass packaging, she said, included exposure of beneficiaries’ products to the market, knowledge of market requirements by beneficiaries as well as acquiring business management and life skills by beneficiaries. Ends