BDC Encourages Parents and Teachers in rural Areas to work together in Facilitating Information, Communication Technology 

Parents and teachers at Salajwe Primary school in the Letlhakeng sub district have been encouraged to work together to ensure that their children get basic education in Information, Communication and Technology. The call was made by the Chairman of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee for Botswana Development Corporation (BDC)  limited Mr Simon Meti, whose corporation donated a computer and a multi purpose printer to the school over the weekend (May 8, 2009).  BDC also donated another computer and multi purpose printer to Qhabara primary school in Maun recently.

Mr Meti said information communication technology(ICT)  is changing very fast, and it is  therefore imperative that pupils should be taken on board at an early age to enable them to cope with the changing demands and challenges brought about by ICT. He said BDC believes in quality education and as result could not resist the request to assist the school with technology related equipment when the need arose.

He said new technologies provide the foundation and facilitate new productions, marketing and distribution, and the capacity of consumers to process information and make decisions. He said technological changes affect major economic, social, and cultural shifts from the modern to the post modern, from local to global markets, from production to consumption and from industrial to informational economies.

Mr Meti said BDC is aware that villages in rural areas are lagging behind in terms of amenities and would continue to assist them, resources permitting. He encouraged  the private sector and corporate world to  jointly assist government whenever they have the resources.

Receiving the computer on behalf of the school, Salajwe Village Chief, Mr Moala Gaerupe thanked BDC for facilitating rural development, noting that it only through donations of the kind that local institutions could take pace with the demands of  globalization.