German-based charity organisation, Soulfood Namibia and Mwakotoka Community Development Project (MCDP) joined forces to donate two classrooms, a storeroom and two toilets for a kindergarten to Oluundje village on Friday.
Okankolo Constituency councillor, Hans Nambambi thanked the two groups and urged local companies to assist local communities to better their livelihood.
Oluundje village headman and member of MCDP, Isak Hamatwi requested called upon the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture to accept their application for them to establish a primary school as of next year.
“Our village has 171 houses with over 200 children who walk long distances to the nearest schools,” said Hamatwi.
He noted that the new building would cater for 23 children.
“We joined forces in 2020 to build a kindergarten, so MCDP donated N.dollars 10 000 whilst Soulfood Namibia donated N.dollars 600 000 to establish this kindergarten,” he said.
Soulfood Namibia is a small non-profit-organisation that provides a financial foundation to communities in need, which springs from applying for benefits by governmental institutions and collecting donations privately.
Hamatwi said apart from this project, Soulfood Namibia also supplied water tanks, cleared the road, and fenced the land for the centre.
He however raised concern about water scarcity in his village due to low water pressure.
“A lot of our people have adapted to drinking water from boreholes and traditional wells, but it causes diarrhoea,” said Hamatwi.
He said that some of people get water from Ontana which is situated 15 kilometres away.
“We need at least two water points because the village is so big, and a big pipeline to increase the water pressure,” Hamatwi said.
Oshikoto MoEAC acting deputy director, Gornu Nakale expressed appreciation to the village for mobilising funds to meet the government halfway.
“Coming up with this initiative is highly recommendable, so a lot of rural villages can try and use this format to improve their villages,” he said.
Nakale said the building will also be used by health practitioners when they visit the village, as well as old age grant distributors.
Source: The Namibian Press Agency