MASERU - The new president of Maluti Rotary Club, Yande Sikazwe Mothae, has set for herself a number of rather tough goals as she ventures into her new journey at the helm of the club.
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July 1, 2020
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Maluti Rotary new president speaks
The new president of Maluti Rotary Club, Yande Sikazwe Mothae
The 51-year-old who took office recently has promised among other things to focus on attracting the younger generation into understanding and joining the rotary movement in Lesotho.
While the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak is making it difficult for organisations to carry out duties as planned, Mothae believes that the club will have to overcome this challenge and still come up with ways to ensure that goals are met and projects achieved.
“Going forward I will be trying to grow the membership. We need to have more members because the more hands we have, the more we can reach out to more people. If we have more members we are able to reach a bigger audience and do many more projects. So our main focus will be to increase the membership and to retain those that we have.
“Also we have to ensure that as we grow the rotary, we also want to make sure that we take care of the new generation, the youth, because the youth are the future of rotary so we have to make sure that we cater for them to come and make them understand rotary and join us so that rotary has a future. If we don’t bring on board young generation we will not be very successful,” the new president said in an interview with Maseru Metro on Wednesday.
Mothae is originally a Zambian but married in Lesotho. She first joined Maluti Rotary in 2006 when she moved to Lesotho but could not stay long as she had to move to Botswana where her husband was then working.
In 2010 she re-joined the rotary club on a fulltime basis in Gaborone Botswana. Later in 2014 the family moved back to Lesotho allowing her to rejoin Maluti Rotary Club.
“It is not me who opted for this position, I was elected because it is an elected office and I was nominated for about a year ago. We are an organisation that gets around towards ensuring that we make the lives of the people better. So there are many areas in which we are focused in, such as health where we check people’s health conditions and vocation for young people,” said Mothae who is also the Managing Director of Tloutle Holdings.
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Another big challenge facing the institution which is well recognised globally is lack of funding. Rotarians have to use their own resources most of the times to meet their targets.
“As you are aware that rotary is an organisation that actually goes out to do things for the community, all these projects requires funding and we are always putting ourselves out there to service others without necessarily looking at our own gain.
“So you find that most of the Rotarians take their own resources to meet a lot of these projects that we work on. But there are some projects that are funded by rotary international. Otherwise we always come together to make things happen,” she added.
Shortly after her induction, the club donated masks, sanitisers and thermometers to Sefika High School to ready itself to open.
Rotary is a worldwide institution with a membership of 1.2 million everywhere in the world.
The new president holds a bachelor’s degree and bachelors of business administration in finance and an MBA in marketing.
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