Tswellopele Branding Enterprise hosted a Health Indaba event on January 14, 2017 to create awareness about the dangers of drug abuse among youth in Thaba Nchu. The event was sponsored by Pioneer Foods, the Department of Sport and Recreation, and Imperial. Over 90 people attended, including keynote speakers, young entrepreneurs, drug users, and parents. Attendees engaged in discussions on how to combat drug abuse and received suggestions from community leaders. The objective was to address how drug use is negatively impacting the health, lives, and productivity of Thaba Nchu's youth.
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To : Whom it may concern
SUBJECT : REPORT FOR HEALTH INDABA
FROM : Kenneth Keamogetse NgakantsI
DATE : 16 January 2017
Event Date : 14 January 2017
Event Time :09:30am-15:30
NEXT EVENT : 27 JANUARY 2017 THABA NCHU BUSINESS NETWORK
TSWELLOPELE BRANDING ENTERPRISE is a registered private company established by CUT
students from Thaba Nchu ‘Keamogetse Kenneth Ngakantsi (3rd Year Internal Auditing)
which won R10 000 prize at Central University of Technology business proposal competition
and later got 3rd prize winner of 2016 Free State Social Enterprise Challenge hosted by
Department of social development,Department of Economic Small Business,Tourism and
Environmental Affairs and International Labour Organisation,
Tswellopele Branding Enterprise specialise in erecting libraries in the rural public schools,
hosting debate and public speaking tournaments,company registrations, events
management, career exhibitions and marketing,the inaugural library will be officially
launched on March 24th 2017 at St Augustines Primary School in Thaba Nchu and aims to
replicate the library in the 2018 year
Tswellopele Branding Enterprise in conjunction with Dyna Pharm International ambassador
Mrs Esther Modise hosted Health Indaba on the 14th of January 2017 at Mmabana Cultural
Centre,the objective was to create awareness of drug abuse and its implications on the
health of users and the society, this was inspired by the dire situation in Thaba Nchu were
the youth’s health and life ios deteriorating due to drug use resulting in violent crimes on
their quest to feed their habits and lower productivity rates per capita as we see the youth
not attending schools and remaining unemployed due to the abuse of drugs which is
prevalent in Thaba Nchu as the status
We invited 75 people however due to our extensive marketing and mass appealing event
we hosted 90 people on the 14th and we were sponsored by PIONEER FOODS
bread,DEPARTMENT OF SPORT AND RECREATION providing the venue,IMPERIAL providing
food donation which added significant value to the event,DYNA PHARM INTERNATIONAL
compiling the concept and Tswellopele Branding Enterprise coordinating and marketing
the event which had a significant impact and got the audience to engage robustly on the
burning issues with the young dissecting their experience as drug users
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ACTIVITIES OF 14 January 2017
Prominent keynote speakers were Dr T.D Thekisho(MBChB(Medunsa),Bsc.Med.Sc
Hons(Stell)EMS provider:ATLS,ALS.APLS,Advanced PHTLS,MIKM,Researcher and Odwa Gogo
(Clinical Psychologist, Wellness expert, Inspirational speaker Lecture) were invited to inspire
the young females
Young entrepreneurs were invited to exhibit the services
Drug users were invited to share their experiences
Parents of the users were invited to share their experiences at their respective homes
Companies were approached to sponsor the event with their designated services
Suggestions were collected from audience as to how can the drug abuse be combated
Office of the major and councillor was invited to engage the youth
IMPERIAL sponsored the food for the event
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IMPERIAL displayed their vehicles(Jaguar and Land Rover) and Marketing Manager joined
us on the day
Breakfast was served on arrival
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Various young entrepreneurs were invited to exhibit their services to the audience
The NEW AGE editors were invited and the event will be on the paper
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Dr T.D Thekisho wwas a guest speaker and delivered a powerful keynote speech ,unfortunately
Odwa Gogo could not make it and we only had one keynote speaker