Africa-Press – Botswana. Society should celebrate World Home Economics Day as the discipline is key to sustainable human life skills development at household level.
Chief social and community development officer, Ms Keamogetse Mooki, said this as the Lobatse Town Council’s Social Welfare and Community Development (S&CD) department celebrated the day recently.
Ms Mooki said Home Economics taught various household skills such as home management and organisation, personal and household cleanliness, as well as food preparation.
Therefore, she said by joining the whole world in celebrating the day, Lobatse Town Council S&CD department was making the public aware of the importance of Home Economics to human lives.
“The objective of commemorating the day is to promote and celebrate the contribution that Home Economics makes to the quality of everyday lives for people around the world.
It is therefore important to promote the importance of Home Economics in the society and make people aware of its impact in their everyday lives,” Ms Mooki said, pointing that the World Home Economics Day was commemorated annually since 1982.
A principal home economics officer at Lobatse Town Council, Ms Beauty Isaac said Home Economics touched on many aspects such as education, health, engineering, and environmental health.
She therefore said it provided more opportunities for development of sustainable life skills in the society.
“Home Economics can provide people with skills to navigate challenges of live successfully at family level.
It also harnesses talents and gives people skills to improve their livelihoods,” she said.
Ms Isaac said through the discipline, people could get skills development and training on various things such as food and nutrition, clothing and design, resource management, entrepreneurship and talent rehabilitation.
She said the Lobatse Town Council S&CD department, through its Poverty Eradication programme, had assisted many destitute people in town with training and support to start income-generating projects.
“Some of those projects are successful while others have failed,” she said.
A total of 261 poverty eradication projects had been funded by the S&CD, according to the council’s principal home economics officer, Ms Tebogo Mahlunge.
She said the projects included catering, toilet paper manufacturing, water purification, carpentry, welding, hair salons, and bead work.
She further said the Lobatse Town Council S&CD department had funded around 300 projects under the economic empowerment programme.
The theme of the event was Waste Literacy. The council’s principal economist, Ms Estinah Mmereki said Lobatse Town Council was piloting some waste management projects in conjunction with the European Union.
She said those included six bio-gas renewable energy projects.
She further said they were also implementing a waste recycling community project, also funded by the European Union.
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