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The Technical and Vocational
Department (TVD) of the Ministry of Education and Training
(MOET) develop business and entrepreneurial training modules
for vocational schools in the country to ensure the module
is able to offer business skills that empower Orphans and
Vulnerable Children (OVC) to start their own income
generating projects to support their families.
Caption: Bethel business student using solar cooker to bake
bread and cakes
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part of this exercise business curriculum and teaching
materials developed and adapted in vocational schools in the
country to equip vocational students with business skills.
To ensure smooth implementation
of the curriculum, business instructors were trained in
entrepreneurial curriculum to impart the knowledge
effectively to their respective students.
The TVD Deputy Director Mr.
Thabang Pulumo said the curriculum is disseminated in all
vocational schools. The business studies is now treated as a
compulsory subject for all vocational students.
However, he said some schools
are not implementing the subject due to shortage of business
teachers in their schools.
The Bethel Business and
Community Development Centre (BBCDC) is one of the
vocational school that has already started implementing
business subject to the students.
Above is one of the Bethel
Student who is the product of the business studies. After
acquiring business skills this student want to be an
entrepreneur and self-employed. Here is her story:
My name is Liteboho Loke. I am
20 years old. My father died when I was young and my mother
is an unemployed home maker.
When I reached form three I
could not go further due to financial constraint. I stayed
home until 2008 when I joined vocational school at Bethel
where I learnt business studies, home economics and solar
energy.
I will completed my studies on
2010. Last year I had a business idea and developed it into
a business plan. My dream is to start a bakery at my home
village in rural Mafeteng where there is no electricity.
My plan is to install solar
power and operate my bakery using solar energy. The whole
idea coast R10,000.00 (US $1,300). My lecturer helped me to
get a donor to support my business idea.
“Thank you to Ministry of
Education and Global Fund for paying our school fees. Even
if I dropped from secondary school, the skills I have gained
from vocational school will help me to start my own business
and take care of my family future,” acknowledged Liteboho.
GFCU will follow Liteboho’s dream and share her progress
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