WALK OF HOPE
SPREADS THE GOSPEL OF HOPE IN COMMUNITIES
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0 year old Founding Director of Walk of Hope, Theriso Motsumi-Motsemeng, relishes every moment to empower the communities by addressing any challenges being experienced through practical means. Since its inception, Motsemeng says that the organisation has done a lot for families and individuals in need, saying: “We have taken on such initiatives as donating food hampers and toiletries to the less privileged, we offer psychological and the psychosocial support to members of the communities, and we also run sanitary and shoe drive campaigns to donate to schools with students who need them the most.” These are but a few examples of practical assistance to communities, with Walk of Hope also getting involved in issues of health as the government sometimes needs the support of its citizenry in order to be effective. The organization also runs HIV/AIDS and Diabetes campaigns, where they teach the locals about the diseases, running public testing sessions with the help of the Ministry of Health and Wellness. Theriso credits her daughter, Selwana Motsemeng for inspiring her to make a difference to people through giving back in action back in 2008, having come to learn that Selwana’s friend was always being molested. After eventually reporting the case, Selwana’s friend found the legal help she needed and won, giving her a fresh start after such an arduous ordeal. Since then, Motsemeng realized the importance of giving, and having to be the voice for the voiceless in every aspect. FORGING CSR PARTNERSHIPS Partnerships are very vital for Walk of Hope and Motsemeng acknowledge one of them for success. “As the CSR Ambassador of Kamoso Africa, I assess the requests that come from other organizations and see how best we can assist them. As the organization can be overwhelmed with a lot of requests for food and toiletries, Kamoso Africa usually donates through Walk of Hope as we already have a base, where we know where the need is the most and we do our best to help through Kamoso Africa. Also, as the CSR Ambassador I portray the images of the X-Men of the organization. I do not walk over anyone’s rights, I treat others with love and respect and lead to bring a difference,” said the confident Walk of Hope
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Theriso Motsumi-Motsemeng,
Director. She buttressed that Kamoso Africa realised the magnificent work that Walk of Hope are doing to help the communities, hence playing a major role in helping them build the working center for Walk of Hope through their sister company Builders Mart. “This is where we help people firsthand, and we also have an initiative of feeding the hungry every Friday for free as for the rest of the week we sell food to raise money for the centre to have the doors open each day. The catering equipment was also donated by Kamoso Africa through Mont Catering. We also have an internet cafe and all the equipment that we are using was powered by Kamoso Africa. Because Molepolole where our offices are situated is a village that has water shortages, New Era College has supported us with Jorje tanks which we use for water storage,” she added. MEANINGFUL IMPACT THE RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN | BUSINESS • COMMUNITY • IMPACT
