Tinah Mpho Molatlhegi

Certified Home Care Aide with a wealth of experience in providing quality home health care. Strengths include active listening, compassion, and patience, coupled with strong skills in assisting clients with daily living activities and managing medication schedules. Have consistently shown commitment to client satisfaction and well-being while maintaining privacy and dignity in previous roles.

Among others, this includes:

• Sewing skills
• Played and coached Netball
• Played and coached Volleyball
• Volunteer on various church Ministries and activities and was elected Chairperson and other key positions
• Volunteered and Chaired some Boards,including the Community Advisory Board in Botswana during the HIV Vaccine Trials in Botswana. Also Chaired the Young Farmers Advisory Board.
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• MSc Organisational Change and Development
• BA Economics and Demography
• Diploma Project Management
• Certificate Counselling
• License Nursing Assistant Registration (NAR)
• License Home Care Aide (HCA)
• Certificate of Completion Certified Ñursing Assistant (CNA)

Leadership

• Acting Director & Deputy Director - Botswana National Youth Council
• Deputy Director - Botswana Red Cross Association
• Organisational Development Advisor for Forum Syd (a Swedish Institution)
• Manager - Holy Cross Hospice for the Anglican Church
• Centre Manager for Tsholofelong Youth & Children's Centre for Vulnerable Children
• Country Manager and Ministry of Health Mentor - Management Sciences for Health
• Chaired the Community Advisory Board on AIDS Vaccines through the Botswana/Harvard Partnership
• Chaired the Young Farmers Fund Board
• Chairperson of the Gender Based Committee within a Vulnerable Community
• Regional Capacity Building Advisor for Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
• Coordinator - Alternative Mining Project towards Social Justice
• Member of the National AIDS Council Chaired by the then President of the Republic of Botswana, President Festus Mogae
• Member of the Task – Force on the National Behavior Change Strategy under the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA).
• Member of the Board of the Botswana Council of NGOs (BOCONGO).
• Member of the Botswana National Council on Women (BNCW), and Chairperson of the Girl-Child sub-committee.
• Member of the HIV/AIDS National IEC Reference Group for the then National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA).
• Member of the Local Host Committee and the Learning Exchange subcommittee, in preparation for the 2004 CIVICUS World Assembly.
• Member of the Advocacy committee Parliament and Law Reform Committee, to review laws on acts of sexual violence to ensure stiffer penalties and protection of the victims, with special consideration to children and youth.
• Member of the Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting (CYMM) Media and Publications Committee, and coordinator of the Youth Expo, during CYMM (2003/2004).
• Event Planner & Coordinator during the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) & Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting (CYMM) held in Botswana in 2003.
• Member of a team that formulated a declaration during the ‘Regional Volunteer Vision’, that was tabled at the African Union Meeting in Durban in July 2002,and at the World Summit on Sustainable Development [WSSD], in August 2002.
• Convener and facilitator of the Botswana and Namibia Youth Councils Twinning Agreement.
• Member of the Reference Group during the review of the National Youth Policies.
• Member of the Reference Group during the review of the Women in Development Policies.
• Member of the Civil Society Capacity Building Strategy Task-Force.
• Member of the Committee on Demarcation of Constituencies in Greater Gaborone, Botswana, prior to the last elections in 2024.

Scholarships, Awards & Publications

• Contributed to the African Women’s Devotional Bible.
• Part of the Presidential Delegation to the World Summit on Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland
• Presented a paper on “The Buddy System”, during the 1st SADC Conference, on Community Home-Based Care.
• Conducted a Research on “Perceptions of Adolescents/Youth on Current Health Services in Botswana”, and presentation during the Medical and Dental Association of Botswana’s 28th Annual Conference
• Carried out a study on “Understanding Constraints to Adolescent Condom Procurement: The Case of Urban Botswana,” and a co-authored with Dr Meekers, Dominique, Prof Ghyasuddin Ahmed. The study has been published on AIDS CARE (2001). VOL.13 NO.3 pp 297-302.

Fellowships & Awards

• British Council - British Chevening Scholarship
• American Embassy – appointed a member of Vital Voices Pan – African Leadership Program for Women and Girls.
• African American Institute – participated during the American Embassy Leadership Exchange Programme on youth focused HIV/AIDS initiatives

Other Key

I am a great team player and team builder, self-driven, passionate about development issues, at all levels, easily trainable and adaptable to new and diverse environments, well exposed to health, business, civil society, and government spheres, possess leadership, management and development skills, a trainer in different fields, analytical and independent thinker, an excellent communicator, mentor, coach and listener, a motivator, an excellent initiator, and a highly creative - recognized in the past as a Top Student for a Certificate in Sewing. I also got a DISTINCTION for my Masters Program in a prestigious institution in the United Kingdom - University of Manchester. Recently I got a rare score of 104% during my successful completion of the Bridge Program on Certified Nursing Assistance (CNA).