BDC supports Junior Achievement Botswana : Northern Region Competitions

Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) Limited sponsored  the Northern Junior Achievement Botswana (JAB) Best Business Competitions held at Selolwe Junior Secondary School in Francistown on the 9th June 2007. The competition was meant to encourage young entrepreneurs to develop business skills  and take them to another level.

Officiating at the occasion, BDC’s Human Resource Development Manager and Chairperson of the Corporation’s Social Investment Committee Mr. Simon Meti, said BDC was honoured to sponsor event because it recognizes the potential it has of transforming the youth into future entrepreneurs. He observed that BDC continues to see JAB Achievers as future partners in business.  “It is in this light that we have invested significantly over the past four years in the strengthening of the JAB programmes and we hope to continue to support the programme in the future,” he said.

He called upon the Achievers to prepare sound and quality business proposals and submit them to financiers for financial assistance such as BDC. He informed them that the objective of BDC is to assist in the establishment and development of commercially viable businesses in Botswana in order to diversify the economy, which  he noted is heavily dependent on the mining sector.

For her part, JAB Executive Director, Tshidi Tlhong thanked BDC for its continued support  and announced that  the next  the sub regional JAB competitions would be held in March next year.  “They support us not only with finance but also with human resources,” she disclosed.

While welcoming guests Councillor for Monarch East Wifred Masima noted  that the JAB Best Business Competitions are the only entrepreneurship awards aimed at recognizing entrepreneurship initiative at grassroots level in Botswana. He said these competitions have over the past four years been held in Maun and thanked the organizers for holding   it in Francistown this year. He also thanked  BDC whose financial support has made the  event a success, hoping that other  could follow suit.