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I learnt about how the Advice Office started and how it got to be where it is today. The Advice Office started its work under the trees with no offices. They found out about a good Samaritan called SCAT, who they heard helps community projects in the villages. A fieldworker from SCAT arrived to make assessments of the organisation. She made a promise to make a deposit for an office and assist with support. Now Mount Fletcher Advice Office does free legal advice, human rights, HIV AIDS and gender equality awareness through door to door visits and workshops, domestic violence victim empowerment and we are still busy with the savings and credit groups.
I have grown so much since I started saving money and investing in the Mount Fletcher savings club. My strengths as a community organiser were recognised and nurtured and now I have a job helping empower victims of domestic violence.
Ke KGOnne JAnG GO THuSA BASAdI
BA BAnG KA Go imAtlAfAtsA
Ke Makotule Leboto. Ke ngwana wa bohlano baneng ba supileng. Ke moradi wa ntate George Mochate le mme Mapoloko Idah Lepita. Ke dula motsaneng wa Fletcherville toropong ya Mount Fletcher, porofensing ya Kapa Bochabela. Toropo ya Mt. Fletcher e kgabile ka makgulo a matala, a dithaba tsa Maloti. dithaba tseo di aparang bosweu ka dinako tsa bomoshenyana sellele hodisa, e leng nako ya Mariha. naheng ena ho phela merabe e fapaneng e leng Maxhosa le Basotho. Batho ba hlompang puo le setso sa bona. Ke sechaba se nang le tumelo setsong le moetlo wa bona. dipalo-palo tsa batho ba phelang mona ke 14632, moo 55% e leng bomme ha 45% e le bontate. ntho e nngwe feela e e tshwengang motsana/toropo ona ke tlhokahalo ya dibanka tsohle tse ding leng teng naheng ya bo rona.
Ke ne ke le mme a sa sebetseng ke dutse lapeng ho hodisa bana ba babedi eleng moshemane le ngwanana. Mokgathlo wa Mt. Fletcher Advice centre, o ne wa etela metsana ya rona o le maikaelong a ho leka ho ntlafatsa sechaba. Ka 2011 ba ile ba tlisa thupello ya socio economic development molemong wa ho thusa batho ka ho ba itsise ditokelo tsa bona le hore ba kgone batswe ho bo Machonisa (Loan sharks). Sechaba sa borona e ne ele mahlatsipa a tlhekefetso ya ditokelo tsa bona. dikarata tsa dibanka le di Id tsa bona di ne di dula ho bo Machonisa(Loan sharks), molemong wa hore motho a kgutle a tlo patala sekoloto sa hae a nto fumana pasa kapa yona karata ya hae. Mo tshebetsong ya rona ho ya ka moo re ne ra rutwa ka teng le naaneng la socio economic programme, ke moo batho ba ipolokellang chelete kgwedi le kgwedi. Ha ho fela selemo ebe ba arolana chelate eo, motho le motho a fumane ya hae. Ke ile ka ba emong a qalang setlhopha le nna ka beeletsa. Ke ile ka ba mongodi wa yona e le bomme ba 16 le bontate ba 04. Motsamaisi was Mt. Fletcher o ile a rata boikitlaetso baka, a kopa ke tle thupellong e tlang hoba teng ofising ya bona. E ne ele thupello ya thlekefetso e e etsahalang malapeng (domestic Violence). e ne ele thupello ya ho thusa mahlatsipa a tlhekefetso (Victim empowerment) e fumanang tshehetso lefapheng la Social development. Bohlokwa ba thupello ena e ne ele ho tlo sheba hore e ka ba ke bo mang ba ka bang le bokgoni ba ho isa thuto ena ya tlhekefetso tsa malapeng sechabeng. Le moo ke ile ka ipabola ka makgabane, hoba tlhekefetso e teng moo re phelang teng. Batho ba bolawa ke baratuwa ba bona ka mehla le mehla. Ke ile ka fumana mosebetsi ha jwalo mokgatlhong wa Mt. Fletcher Advice Centre.
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