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Lekwalo was always active in community projects conducting seminars for the youth in her church teaching them about issues related with STI’s and HIV/AIDS. She was always having passion working with the community in her village by encouraging those that had HIV/AIDS related signs and symptoms to go test and enroll in the drug therapy. She was also doing home visits to do continuous counseling for those tested and found to be positive. She conducted seminars in the village teaching the home based volunteers about the care of patients who had AIDS related illness through district multisectoral aids committee initiatives She was one of the executive members of the district multisectoral committee (DMSAC) in the Serowe /Palapye district in Botswana The passion did not stop at her village because she presented a paper at the First National HIV/AIDS/STI/ Other Related Diseases (ORID) Research Conference. NHARSORC.2003. The presentation was no Mother- to mother-to-be a Peer psychosocial Support Group for HIV positive women enrolled in PMTCT Presented a concept paper in Sweden on the views the Girl Teenager towards sexual Reproductive Health education and Counseling She was the vice chairperson of Health Promotion International (HPI) which had multi projects and she was the heading the projects which were involved in empowering women by doing income generating projects. The project is called Thari – ya- Sechaba and it earned the organization the World Bank Award Winner of the South Africa Innovation Day Johannesburg June 2004.Theme: “Turning Ideas into Action”. She is now doing MBA in Health Care Management with University of Northern Virginia (UNVA) Manassas Virginia finishing September 2009. She is working for Ariel Foundation as the Project Manager and she wants to do project in Africa concentrating on projects dealing with empowering women and girls since they are the ones they are underprivileged education and at risk of contracting. In five years from now she would like contribute and get involve in projects that will help fight the spread or prevent HIV especially in Africa where lot of people are infected She was activity in sports both at primary and secondary and she was a traditional dancer and also couched the traditional dance at the Nursing School in Serowe MY MOTTO I LOVE TO PUT A SMILE ON SOMEBODY’S FACE |