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With a strong focus on the responsibilities of a 100% wholly government owned organization, Botswana Fibre Networks holds a high regard for the social and livelihood issues and proactively takes part in community welfare on the back of our expertise and technical strengths. We are reputable in Corporate Social Responsibility projects aimed at assisting, benefitting and empowering marginalized individuals and communities. BoFiNet utilizes resources to benefit and uplift communities in such a way that the quality of life is generally improved and safeguarded. Over the years, we have invested in the following Corporate Social Investment portfolios.
BoFiNet is a title sponsor of the BoFiNet Softball League, through the Botswana Softball Association. Through this partnership, we improve the lives of both players and the public. A key development is the sponsorship of the Top Four Junior and Secondary Schools Championships with the Botswana Integrated Sports Association (BISA), preparing players for the BoFiNet Softball League and growing softball as a sport.
Computers and internet have been donated to various schools, Kgotlas and Home Based Centres, becoming a major part of learning and IT skills development. Beneficiaries include Bobonong Home Based Care Centre, Kgomodiatshaba Primary School, Seronga Kgotla, Lesirane Primary School and many others. In partnership with our contractors, we have also donated networked computer labs, an outdoor gym for the Tsabong community, and a year of free internet connectivity to schools.
As a wholesale provider of network infrastructure, one of our mandates is to improve access to knowledge. We provide free broadband to schools for a period of one year. Since inception, the schools connectivity project has reached around 100 schools across Botswana to help bridge the digital divide, often coupled with donated computers and a revision application that enables learners to take self-tests.
Every year we award excellence in academics, sports and behaviour in over ten schools — a gesture we started in 2017. The objective is to motivate learners and reward hard work. We have also partnered on tertiary ceremonies, including recognising the best student in the Faculty of Sciences at BIUST.
We are committed to best environmental practices and every project goes through an environmental check. These pre-development impact studies are conducted in accordance with the law and local environmental protection agencies. Since inception, BoFiNet has engaged 100% citizen-owned environmental consultancies to provide oversight at 20 of our infrastructure projects to date.
We have donated towards a child going for a heart transplant and funded two other children with cerebral palsy to undergo stem cell therapy in Mumbai, India.
BoFiNet has adopted about thirty children from vulnerable families around the country. We take care of their general upkeep and organise boot camps, Christmas parties and birthday celebrations once a year as a way of grooming them to become better citizens.
As part of the Ministry of Transport and Communications initiative, all stakeholders give back to the community annually. BoFiNet's Community Service Day is held in June — we have refurbished and erected a jungle gym at Kgomodiatshaba Primary School, spent time with senior citizens in Bontleng, and donated shoes and socks to learners in Dutlwe. In our "Keep a Girl in School" campaign, staff collected and donated 1,997 packets of sanitary towels to Lerala JSS to restore dignity and curb truancy.