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Debswana launched its 2024 strategy, dubbed “One Dream, One Team” in 2020. One of the strategic pillars of the “One Dream One Team” strategy is the Safety, Environment and Communities pillar which seeks to achieve empowered communities.
In 2001, Debswana was the first company in the world to introduce anti-retroviral therapy to employees and spouses living with HIV and AIDS. At the time, anti-retroviral therapy was not freely available and Debswana wanted to save lives and increase the productivity of employees who were infected. This was extended children in 2008 due to the acknowledgement that it does not help treating the parents and leaving out their infected children.
During the recent COVID pandemic, the company spent over P50 million on various interventions, including the purchase of PPE for 21 clinics, purchase of vaccinations for the national vaccination programme, isolation centres, over 300,000 face masks for community members, learners, employees and contractor emplyees. The Debswana hospitals were beefed up to cater for employees, their families and communities.
It goes without saying that the long-standing impact of Debswana hospitals has positioned the company well in advance to achieve its noble objective of improving health outcomes amongst employees, their families and communities at large, and will contribute towards the early achievement of the Debswana’s strategy transformational agenda.
Debswana and the Ministry of Health have partnered to improve the health status of communities in the mining areas of Boteti, Southern and Kweneng districts. The two partners have, through a joint programme dubbed Botsogo Teemane, pencilled a strategy to implement six health focus areas aimed at taking the health status of communities to desirable levels. The Botsogo Teemane programme is anchored on Memorandum of Understanding signed in July 2023 by the partners zeroing on health and wellbeing areas of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Botswana Vision 2036 ‘Prosperity for All’ and the Debswana purpose to ‘Make Life Brilliant.’ The partnership is meant to strengthen service delivery and improve the health status of communities in the mining areas of Boteti, Southern and Kweneng districts in the following six key focus areas:
• SGD 2 – Malnutrition
• SDG 3.1 – Maternal mortality
• SDG 3.3 – Infectious diseases
• SDG 3.4 – Non communicable diseases
• SDG 3.5 – Substance Abuse
• SDG 3.8 – Universal health
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