Africa-Press – Botswana. Botsalano Primary School has received 2 000 reciting books to cultivate the spirit of reading among pupils.
The books were donated by Ms Gorata Nage, a student at Bosa Bosele Training College in partnership with Botswana Book Project.
Ms Nage said she would appreciate if the books were put to proper use and not left idle.
She promised to continue supporting the school whenever called upon.
For his part, Minister of Communications, Knowledge and Technology, Mr Thulagano Segokgo commended Botswana Book Project and Ms Nage for the initiative to help the country become a knowledge-based economy.
“Delivering quality education to the nation is the responsibility of government, said Mr Segokgo, adding that seeing people help government to achieve the goal was fulfilling.
Botswana Book Project director, Mr Ezekiel Malenya said their goal was to cultivate the spirit of reading in order to make it easier for the learning process to take place.
He said 10 000 reciting books would be donated to the Tlokweng sub-region and that 2 000 books would go to secondary schools in Tlokweng while the rest would be distributed among primary schools.
He added that educating children was one way of eradicating poverty as they would make an economic impact in communities through the skills and knowledge they had acquired.
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