Botswana Oil empowers SMMEs
Your help is very much significant because we want to develop Gaborone into a diamond city but currently we do not have a budget because our budget has been reduced by the Covid 19 pandemic.
Botswana Oil Limited Chief Executive, Meshack Tshekedi said they will continue to find ways to uplift the informal sector through initiatives that develop communities and uplift small medium micro enterprises.
As part of this initiative, on Tuesday, the company donated umbrellas and table cloths to 15 street vendors around in Gaborone. BOL recognises the critical role played by small businesses in economic development, said Tshekedi. “Government established this company to ensure that Batswana participate and benefit from the oil industry. We are working with a lot of small businesses around the communities we operate in. we found it fit for us to donate these umbrellas to these small businesses to help uplift them,” he explained.
BOL plans to partner with Gaborone City Council to clean the city especially around the Central Business District. Meanwhile, Gaborone City Deputy Mayor, Lotty Manyapedza said Botswana Oil Limited assistance to the vendors comes at a good time when the City Council is working on coming up with initiatives to improve the operating environment for the street vendors. “Your help is very much significant because we want to develop Gaborone into a diamond city but currently we do not have a budget because our budget has been reduced by the Covid 19 pandemic.”
He said the donations will promote orderliness, cleanliness and make CBD more presentable. Botswana Oil Limited is a 100 percent national oil firm.