Newsletter Vol II Issue 1 2007 - Government of Botswana

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CREATIVE VISION, A ROAD TO SUCCESS Mrs. Margaret Mosojane said transformation is the emergence of selfgenerated possibilities that were not present and it occurs when you recognize, acknowledge and give up an automatic way of being in favor of making something new possible. She said leaders should be concerned with the future of the organization and its survival. Mrs. Mosojane said if employees create a vision of a desirable future that can be seen as truly possible then it can generate commitment in achieving that future. “When we do this all the resources of the past become available to guide our actions” she said. She further said Leaders need to be emotional intelligent led so that they can deal effectively with colleagues when they are not in the action mood. The Tatitown court President Mrs. Ludo Margaret Mosojane said this when they donated some money to charity organization to show compassionate and love to their fellow country people in hard times. She said traditionally as a society they were always taught at a family level to give to the less fortunate. “At the heart of African communities there is a spirit to share what we have with others” she said. Mrs. Mosojane said what they were giving does not much matters but it is not the size of a gift that matters but the gesture that will go a long way to tell a story and motivate others to support disadvantaged. She said they raised the amount P5200- 00 by conducting beauty contest and requested a donation from Debswana mining company which extended their hand by giving the organizing committee P3000-00. Mrs. Mosojane said she remember a tough moment when things seemed not to be going well as people had different opinion about the idea of fundraising. She said because of the self generated possibilities and hope for the future, she got the strength from god who gave her the power of making that happen. She said it was like taking a journey in a road diverged in a wood and less travelled by people.Mrs.. Mosojane said they believed that successful people realize that what happens may be out of their control but what they do with what happens is completely up to them. It was their choice to choose to dig in their heels and cling to the hope that things would never happen or recognizing that a creative vision is a road to success. She said at the end of it all it was to find the right people in the right environment to accomplish their vision. Everyone in the team contributed positively into the vision with passion and sacrifice. Finally they managed to donate P3000.00 to Mrs. Agnes Malanda on behalf of SOS in Francistown and P2100- 00 to Mr.. Matlhogonolo Rathedi. They also hosted a dinner for the then Local Police Commander at Francistown Civic Centre and handed some presents to him amounting to P3000-00. By Mmolawa Phuthego
ORGAN DONATION - A GIFT OF LIFE The Minister of Local Government, Ms. Margaret Nasha said time has come for Batswana to embrace the idea of donating their body organs, for the benefit of people in need of such organs. Minister Nasha said in the past, Batswana literally frowned at the idea of donating blood as they believed the fairy tales such as donors could bleed to death or that they usually experienced fainting or dizziness after giving away their blood. Officially opening the Botswana Local Police fund-raising music concert sponsored by Shell Oil Botswana to raise funds for the Masisi Organ Foundation in Kanye recently, she said with time, some Batswana had now become aware that such were fairy tales and that blood donation was important, and the way to go, if lives are to be saved. Although blood donation has become acceptable, the situation is not same with plastic surgery and organ donation and transplant as the ideas were still alien to many Batswana. Ms. Nasha said it was not in the Setswana culture or tradition to donate human body organs. Therefore, the need to educate Batswana on the safe and possibility of the processes involved could not be overemphasized. She said it was evident that lives could be saved through organ donation and replacement of dysfunctional organs which were damaged to the extent that they could no longer sustain life. Organs such as kidneys, heart, eyes, skin and other body parts can be donated to save other peoples lives, the Minister said, adding that with more information, organ donation was gaining momentum in modern surgeries. She said she was humbled by the endeavor of the Botswana Local Police to create awareness in relation to organ donation. She said the appreciation and acceptance of new medical techniques by all Batswana was vital and people should be prepared to assist their fellow citizens whenever the need arose. Ms. Nasha applauded the Botswana Local Police College for breaking the record of by being the first-ever government institution to respond to the clarion call by the Masisi Organ Foundation through such a special event. She said organ transplants or donations were expensive, especially because in some countries it had become a business whereby people sold body organs to enrich themselves. Ms. Nasha applauded the Masisi family for forming a foundation whose primary objective was to raise awareness of the disease and its causes. The foundation came as a result of long suffering and endurance of Mr. Tshelang Masisi, the MP for Francistown West, who was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure which required him to undergo a kidney transplant. The Masisi family went through emotional and financial trauma hence their decision to help people in the same plight through the establishment of the Masisi Organ Foundation Trust. continued..... page 13
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