Founder

Cathy Sibanda is a financial literacy and financial inclusion promoter. She is a personal finance consultant and an enthusiastic  financial educator. She is passionate about financial literacy and as such she founded the Financial Literacy Trust in 2016, with a vision to raise a financially literate generation, The trust is an early market mover in issues of financial literacy and inclusion in Botswana. Through the  Trust, Cathy sits in the Botswana Technical Working Group for the National Financial Inclusion Strategy.

Cathy is a Finance graduate from the University of Botswana and a Henley Business School Alumni. She is a certified and trained financial educator with the National Financial Educators Council. In 2017 she received a certificate of recognition for financial educators from the National Financial Educators Council.She is a member of the Personal Finance Speakers in the USA. Her vision is to advocate for the inclusion of financial literacy as part of the school curricular for both primary and secondary education. She has worked with various local and international organisations.

Cathy has had several speaking engagements and conducted seminars to educate the community on financial literacy. Cathy is a media contributor. She has previously worked with  the Department of Consumer Affairs at the Ministry of Investment, Trade & Industry in Botswana in their public education programmes.She has regular radio discussions (both locally,  and South Africa) on empowering the nations on financial literacy issues.

In 2019, She started working with ‘The 1873 FM’ in South Africa to empower the women in the Agriculture sector through an organisation called Women in Agriculture.The objective of the weekly live discussions on Financial Literacy and Crowd Funding was to  empower women to build sustainable agribusinesses by adopting practices like crowdfunding.

Cathy is part of the inaugural Obama Foundation Leaders programme  for 2019. She is a One Young World Ambassador and was selected as one of the 40  Icons of Change in Africa  by Facebook in 2019. She currently serves as the Secretary General of the World Youth Leadership Centre, headquartered in Rwanda.

Patron

Shermy Motlhabane is a well experienced educator having been in the teaching profession for 25 years four of which she was a temporary teacher and 21 years as language communication, and continuous writing skills professional.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities specializing in English and History, a Post Graduate Diploma in Education with the University of Botswana. She also holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Botswana and Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Curriculum Instruction and Methods Development from Concordia University of Portland in Oregon the United States of America. Ms Motlhabane has a Certificate in Copy-Editing with the University of Cape Town. She has international exposure of teaching outside Botswana as she was attached at the Indiana University Of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, through the Fulbright Scholarship. She is now an 2019-2020 Alumni of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers (Fulbright DAI), a program sponsored by the U.S Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and the Fulbright Commission.

Shermy is passionate about performance and service delivery. For a long time, she was involved in Performance Management with the Ministry of Education and Skills Development at the different institutions she was teaching at and was also a member of the South East Regional Technical Team where they reviewed the Region's Annual Performance Plan, cascaded the plan to the stakeholders and did training on issues pertaining to performance.

Shermy is an author of three (3) English text books a series called "Number 1 English Form 1, 2 and 3". She is also a motivational speaker, a pre and post marital counsellor and a lay preacher. She is married with three (3) children. With this wealth of knowledge behind her, she will apply her knowledge, skills and experience to the Financial Literacy Trust as a proactive dynamic and goal oriented Patron.

Chodiwa Seratwa Mmabatho Mosweu is employed by the National Development Bank as The Agency and Advisory Manager / Principal Officer. Her role entails the management of the Bancassurance function of the bank and fund administration.

Furthermore, Chodiwa serves as the regulatory corridor between the bank and the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority. She previously worked for Botswana Insurance Holdings (BIHL) under Botswana Life Insurance Company. Chodiwa started her career in the insurance industry with Dynamic Insurance Brokers, which is one of the leading insurance companies in Botswana trading in both long and short term insurance.

Outside work, financial literacy especially for women and children is a subject she is passionate about as it's a tool for self-emancipation.

Modise Mgadla is employed as a Sport Administrator by the Botswana National Olympics Committee. He joined the organisation as an intern in 2014. Modise is a University of Botswana Bachelor of Business Administration graduate, with specialty in project management & Logistics.

Modise is passionate about issues of financial literacy especially amongst the young people. He has been a trustee of the Financial Literacy Trust since its inception and has actively been involved in the Trust’s projects and initiatives. Modise is a born again Christian, and he leads on the Botswana’s upcoming gospel music group called Voice of Change.

We remember Renyaditswe Thelma Oageng who was one of our founding trustees. She passed away in September 2020.

Ms. Kutlo Modie holds a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering obtained from the University of Botswana in 2017. She is registered with both the Engineers Registration Board ( ERB) and Botswana Institute of Engineering (BIE) as a graduate engineer. In her professional work, Kutlo is a Junior Consulting Engineer at a local engineering firm.

Kutlo joined the Financial Literacy Trust in August 2019 as a volunteer and has been involved in the organisation’s public relations activities. She was appointed to the Financial Literacy Trust board of Trustees in August 2019. Kutlo subscribes to the philosophy of “fearless mistake making” in her journey to expand her knowledge and experience, a principle she applies to all her work in the pursuit of constant learning.

Her hunger for knowledge and steadfast commitment makes her a valuable member of the Financial Literacy Trust who has provided critical thinking and creativity to its initiatives and activities.