NED youth collaborate against poverty, crime, HIV/AIDS

BUTALE: While some youth are hopeless about life and spend most of their time relying on government handouts, North East District (NED) youth who have grouped themselves into an organisation want to tackle crime, poverty and HIV/AIDS.

Last Friday, the Committee of Youth Empowerment Against Crime and HIV/AIDS (CYEAC) held a ceremony here, where they displayed one of the weapons they intend to deploy against the scourges that have left families in tatters.

The weapon is in the form of a tuckshop built for a needy youth in Butale with the help of the Botswana Savings Bank (BSB). The tuckshop is intended to spirit Keitumetse Tshupelo out of the abject poverty she has been living in. This is part of the organisation’s mandate – to help each other beat poverty.

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