10 Jul 2022

Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited (BIHL) has donated P150 000 towards the orphans and vulnerable children programme at Delta Waters International School.

Handing over the cheque at the school recently, BIHL Trust board member, Professor Rosaleen Nhlekisana said the company’s intention was to drive meaningful change having been donating towards Corporate Social Responsibility  projects for 15 years.

She said BIHL Trust had injected over P33 million to communities in Botswana to change lives for the better and building strong communities.

Professor Nhlekisana said the project was born from a research in partnership with the Ministry of Education  to identify schools that supported orphans and vulnerable children programmes hence Delta Waters was identified.

“We hope this money will ensure children from disadvantaged background have equal opportunities with the rest of the learners so that they can succeed in their academic pursuits,” she said.

She said the programme had produced success stories in Maru-A-Pula School in Gaborone where learners under the OVC obtained high grades and proceeded to universities.

She therefore encouraged children enrolled in the programme to work hard so that they realised their dreams of becoming successful in life.

Delta Waters school principal, Mr Pearce Khoza highlighted that the OVC programme aimed to support academically gifted orphans who were financially challenged due to their backgrounds.

Currently, he said they only supported children in the North West District, adding that beyond 2023 they would reach out to children across Botswana to offer them opportunity to study at Delta Waters.

Mr Khoza said the school believed in inclusive education for all, adding that no child should be disadvantaged by their family background because education was a universal right.

He further said as a school they had achieved academic excellence with a success record of above 90 per cent in the Junior Certificate Examination (JCE) as well as International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) year in year out.

“We pledge to continue supporting vulnerable children and we commit to carry out the orphans and vulnerable children programme so as to bless these gifted learners,” Mr Khoza said. Ends