Madam Speaker ignites Barolong HS with donations

MAHIKENG MAIL-MAHIKENG: A wave of excitement gripped Barolong High School learners and educators as North West Legislature Speaker, Dr Desbo Mohono, and The Groove Foundation, a charity organisation, jointly showered the embattled school with dignity essentials and furniture.

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The Madam Speaker joined the organisation on a donation drive to distribute 50 packets of sanitary towels, 140 school jerseys, shoes and pre-used furniture to the school.

Since the inception of the charity drive three years ago, the organisation has distributed at least 500 school shoes each year. Being one of many such projects supported by the Speaker, the charity drive aimed to address the endless challenge of school girls who continuously lack basic dignity essentials such as sanitary towels and boy children who do not have proper school shoes.

Dr Mohono also identified pre-used furniture and donated it to the school's staff room.

"I don't know poverty because my mother was a teacher and my grandmother had a business. Significantly, my mother taught me that there were people who go to bed hungry and we need to thank God that we are blessed," said Dr Mohono.

She took a swipe at politicians for what she said were undermining people and were arrogant.