Love Botswana launched Metro World Child in 2022. Delivered in primary schools, it uses colorful posters, engaging stories, games, and songs to deliver a faith-based curriculum that teaches life lessons and builds character. Love Botswana facilitators deliver 24 lessons annually, addressing topics such as bullying, respect, and honesty. The program is in use in 13 countries and reaches more than 250,000 children each week.
A facilitator displays one of the posters that help to deliver a story to a rapt group of children
Along with delivering this proven life skills program, Love Botswana will be erecting playgrounds at 40 primary schools throughout northern Botswana through our 40/40 Legacy Vision project which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Lackeys’ arrival in Africa in 1987. The playgrounds are possible through a partnership with Project Playground and USAID’s Ocean Freight Reimbursement Program.
These industrial playgrounds are decommissioned in America and then restored by Project Playground volunteers who ship them to countries where “kids have never seen [a playground].” The first playground was launched in Maun at the Life Centre on 17 November 2023.
At the ribbon cutting of a new playground in Maun, Botswana