Broadhurst Adventists to build P13m community centre

VICTOR MUYAKWABO
Staff Writer | Tuesday May 28, 2013 00:00

The building will serve as a community succour centre for anyone in need of such attention in and around Gaborone.Nasha said the project comes at a time large numbers of youths in Botswana are going through social challenges.'Due to desperation, suicide has become common among the youth these days and the cure cannot be obtained from clinics or anywhere else because the only thing people need is care and support,' she said.

She noted that some of the people she was talking about could be involved in the idea of constructing a succour centre.The project is funded by the Broadhurst congregation for which Nasha quoted the Book of James 2:14-15: 'What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 'If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,' and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?'

Giving the background to the project, a leader of the Broadhurst congregation, Anderson Chebani, said the idea first emerged and was agreed upon in 2002.Chebani said the centre will aim at providing social intervention against HIV/AIDS and drug and alcohol abuse, as well as tackle lack of education as contributing to some of these problems.

'As a church, we want to be tolerant and to unite the community so that social intervention may take place here,' he said.The centre should remind people that God cares about them, he added. The building, a double storey structure, is expected to be finished in 18 months.