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TIRELO SETSHABA PART OF YES - MAPHORISA The recently launched Botswana National Service Programme, also known as Tirelo Setshaba, is a component of the Youth Empowerment Scheme (YES). Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture permanent secretary, Ms Ruth Maphorisa said this when responding to a question from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member and also Tonota North MP, Mr Fidelis Molao on June 5. Ms Maphorisa said the confusion might had come from the fact that people used YES synonymously with the boot camp, which she said, had been moved from the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture to the Ministry of Education and Skills Development. She said the national service was not in any way replacing YES, adding that the boot camp was also a component of YES. The Youth Empowerment Scheme, she said, “is a large multifaceted approach in terms of dealing with youth issues, as we appreciate that youth issues are many, there are issues of unemployment and school dropouts.” Therefore, in terms of the attachments, she said all young people who were on attachment to various organisations under YES, and having gone through the boot camp, were all transferred to the national service. The attachment age for the national service, she said, ranged between 20 to 30 years. Participants already reaching the age of 30, she said, would exit from the programme, adding that the intention was not to keep participants in the programme until they reached the exit age. She said participants were all at liberty to apply for other government youth empowerment programmes once they exit the service or even before they reached the exit age. However, she said participants who exit the programme earlier were not given their savings immediately, but were allowed to draw them after a year. When responding to a question from PAC chairperson and also Lobatse MP, Mr Nehemiah Modubule, on what the ministry was doing to empower the National Service participants; she said participants were engaged in health education and agricultural activities. She also added participants were also encouraged to access other various government youth empowerment programmes to achieve self-sustenance. In her response to another PAC member and also Shoshong MP, Mr Phillip Makgalemele’s question on whether the National Service was a sub-component of job shadowing, Ms Maphorisa said “Tirelo Sechaba, as the name suggests, is a national service and as such is a voluntary scheme. And that is in line with the African Charter that talks about voluntarism, and the same goes for the Youth Policy, which also talks about voluntarism.” (BOPA)
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:18:14 +0000

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