Africa-Press – Botswana. Kgololesego Christian Church (KCC) has been commended for implementing and helping amplify government’s reset agenda through their youth mindset change campaign.
Amongst other things, KCC had been praised for heeding and adopting government’s mindset change campaign and integrating it into its operations with a view to touch the youth’s thoughts and emotions and overall behaviour.
Speaking during KCC’s sponsored walk on Saturday, Francisco Malesela Kgoboko (FMK) foundation chairperson, Mr Francisco Kgoboko, commended the church for its visionary leadership and the ability to answer government’s call for mindset change.
“It is gratifying and commendable that your church is living and spreading mindset change as part of the reset agenda,” said Mr Kgoboko.
He also commended KCC for having identified challenges that the youth faced and moved to address them through engagement at the church’s activities, especially in the brass band.
“Our youth who constitute about 60 per cent of the population face enormous challenges such as unemployment and mental problems. Therefore, seeing a church trying to address these challenges is admirable,” he said.
Following a walk that sought to raise funds to buy more equipment deemed expensive, for the brass band choir, Mr Kgoboko, who donated P5 000 and bought 100 shirts for the walk, said addressing challenges besieging youth was akin to dragging them out of prisons.
Bobirwa District Council deputy chairperson, Mr Thulaganyo Lucas said the church was partially fulfilling some challenges that the council was battling.
Consequently, Mr Lucas praised KCC for preoccupying the youth’s minds with brass band and other christian activities, which kept them off idleness.
“As a council, we are engulfed by challenges such as rape, defilement and illicit drugs amongst the youth and to see a church play a role in combating these problems head-on is notably admirable,” said Mr Lucas, who also implored the church to also pray against such societal ills.
For his part, KCC secretary general, Mr Ketlogetse Motsumi said although they had other avenues of raising funds solely for the church, the idea to do so for the youth brass band was hatched last year after realising that the band had the capacity to pull a young crowd off the streets.
Mr Motsumi said despite the brass equipment’s reported high prices, the church’s whole idea was to help the band grow in leaps and bounds and spread to other circuits across the country.
“We will be buying the instruments until we end up with almost a full complement of the brass band. An instrument is reportedly costing over P20 000. Although we have managed to accrue enough, we are yet to satisfy the requirement of a complete brass band,” he added.
KCC was registered in 1999 under the leadership of Archbishop Mojuta Mashaba and prides itself of complying with provisional requirements and submitting returns under the relevant statute at the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs.
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