Government Give Support To Macha Accident Victims

The road accident claimed the lives of other Macha students whilst scores were injured when being transported by a truck to their villages after completing BGCSE exams last year November is one of the worst incidents that occurred in this country last year. Former students have recently graduated after enrolling in a program that equipped them with skills that will enable them to explore different career pathways.

The youth graduated from a number of vocational skills such as art, building of lelwapa, theater, drama, poetry, the skills that have a therapeutic component as well. The program was a joint initiative between private sector and the community and aimed at facilitating healing and providing psycho-social support as well as vocational skills after they were involved in a truck accident along Takatokwane/Dutlwe in Kweneng East.

Molepolole/Lentsweletau sub-council deputy chair Mr Slumber Mokgosi assured graduates that government will continue to support the students in all their endeavors and that most of all graduates must put into use what they have learnt in their last six months of training.