13 Jul 2021

Ms Itumeleng Johane, of Radisele recently launched a girl-child empowerment club with the aim to contribute towards grooming and nurturing young girls.

The club was launched during an event at which she was donating sanitary pads at her former school, Radisele JSS.

According to Ms Johane, I’m S.H.E Club, as the club is aptly called, sought to inculcate a mindset change in young girls and help instill in them a sense of self-belief in their own abilities.

The 21 year-old, who is a second-year University of Botswana (UB) student, explained that the club name symbolised her desire to see young girls believing in themselves and not being swayed by societal gender stereotypes.

She said young girls should know and understand their strength because that would help them appreciate that they were capable of achieving anything they set their minds to.

Explaining the S.H.E acronym in the club’s name, Ms Johane said the objective behind it was to encourage young girls to aspire to be strong, hardworking and extra-ordinary. She said if realised, the three tenets would ensure that young girls do not stop at anything in the quest to realise their individual and collective dreams.

Ms Johane said she was hoping to see an army of amazing young women emerging in every community in the country and seeing that also happening in her village of Radisele would be heartwarming. Ends