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Botswana Khwedom Council

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Human Rights
Geographic scope:	National
Mission statement:	Our focus is advocacy and community empowerment. In all areas that we are working on we start with mobilisation of the community; 1. Land, Natural Resources and Tourism here we mobilise the community to be involved in cultural tourism and conservation of natural resources. We therefore capacitate them on their rights to land, their benefits and involvement in so far as policies of the government on environment are concerned. 2. Education and language we encourage our people to take education seriously. here we teach them the benefits of formal or classroom education. we show them how it is not different from our informal or indigenous education system. on language we work towards the preservation of San languages. currently we are in the preocess of developing an orthography for san languages. 3. Leadership and Representation we make sure that the San people are fully represented by their own people. representation here starts from chieftainship to political representation. we do a series of workshop training people on advocacy and leadership skills. Human rights and Gender we inform people of their rights as a people and as women. we equip them to stop abuse of any kind against san people and women.
Year established:	2005
Year of registration:	2008
Organizational structure:	At the upper echelons of decision making is the General Assembly, then the National Council, District council and lastly the local council
Number and type of members:	1 type of member: San indigenous peoples full membership
Affiliation with NGO networks:	IPACC
Funding structure other:	none

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