Africa-Press – Botswana. In its quest to empower women to be employable especially in the male dominated industry, Dulux Botswana has trained 11 women and one man on wall painting in Metsimotlhabe.
The retooling exercise as a result saw the village kgotla buildings over the weekend sporting new looks after a face-lift by the re-skilled residents.
Speaking after the painting of Metsimotlhabe kgotla buildings, Dulux general manager Mr Moses Muyaluka, said the training was a way of empowering the women and skilling them on painting, normally dominated by men or labelled as men’s work. “The other aim of the project of face-lifting the Kgotla is to help in improving the economy by skilling women to be employable, especially with the increase of unemployment in the country,” said he said.
In his address Kgosi Seeletso Pule, appreciated Dulux Botswana for improving the look of the Kgotla and for contributing to job creation by empowering women to be self-employed, and be industry ready. “It shows that government is not alone in making job opportunities accessible and doable for both genders,” he said.
One of the beneficiaries, Ms Dolly Serame expressed delight for the training, saying “at the start, together with my team mates we learnt a lot about types of paints to use some of which we didn’t know they existed,”. The women said they would use the skill to make a living.
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