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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-08-08
Fawena helps San student
Hileni Nembwaya
THE Forum for African Women and Educationalists in Namibia (Fawena) remains to help the most marginalised and less privileged communities into the mainstream of Namibia’s economy by improving their livelihood and accomplishing their dreams.
Tissa John (20) is one of the beneficiaries of Fawena who is currently a first year nursing student at Oshakati intermediate hospital in the north, who hails all the way from Divundu, Kavango region.
She was raised up by a single, unemployed mother who unfortunately passed away last year. Her father abandoned her mother when Tissa was a baby.
Before she became a Fawena beneficiary, she said her primary education was never paid for and she has been benefiting from Fawena since 2003.
“My life before Fawena was very hard and tough, because I had to walk long distances to school on an empty stomach but ever since Fawena came in to my life I started progressing well,” said John.
At the moment she is the only girl from her San community who managed to make it to tertiary level, as some of her friends got pregnant, others got married and many dropped out of school due to financial difficulties.
She was the best learner in the Basic Education Support project in the Mukwe circuit and represented the Kavango region’s debate club in 2010.
Fawena is a non-governmental organisation, that first opened its office in 1999, with the support of the Ministry of Education.
It aims to help address the educational challenges Namibian girls face.
Currently she is one of the beneficiaries of the San development programme that was established by Cabinet under the Office of the Prime Minister.
According to a report obtained from the Office of the Prime Minister, Cabinet wanted to put and end to the prevailing situation and create a new page where the marginalised communities can live a predictable life and have hope for the future.
“Cabinet wanted to create acceptable conditions of livelihood for the weakest among our nationals through life-long empowerment,” the report further reads.
San people are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of Namibia, who first settled and led a nomadic life on the edge of Kalahari and Namib desert at least 2000 years ago.
Tissa John (20) is one of the beneficiaries of Fawena who is currently a first year nursing student at Oshakati intermediate hospital in the north, who hails all the way from Divundu, Kavango region.
She was raised up by a single, unemployed mother who unfortunately passed away last year. Her father abandoned her mother when Tissa was a baby.
Before she became a Fawena beneficiary, she said her primary education was never paid for and she has been benefiting from Fawena since 2003.
“My life before Fawena was very hard and tough, because I had to walk long distances to school on an empty stomach but ever since Fawena came in to my life I started progressing well,” said John.
At the moment she is the only girl from her San community who managed to make it to tertiary level, as some of her friends got pregnant, others got married and many dropped out of school due to financial difficulties.
She was the best learner in the Basic Education Support project in the Mukwe circuit and represented the Kavango region’s debate club in 2010.
Fawena is a non-governmental organisation, that first opened its office in 1999, with the support of the Ministry of Education.
It aims to help address the educational challenges Namibian girls face.
Currently she is one of the beneficiaries of the San development programme that was established by Cabinet under the Office of the Prime Minister.
According to a report obtained from the Office of the Prime Minister, Cabinet wanted to put and end to the prevailing situation and create a new page where the marginalised communities can live a predictable life and have hope for the future.
“Cabinet wanted to create acceptable conditions of livelihood for the weakest among our nationals through life-long empowerment,” the report further reads.
San people are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of Namibia, who first settled and led a nomadic life on the edge of Kalahari and Namib desert at least 2000 years ago.
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