Kalkfeld Primary School in the Otjozondjupa region received two newly-built classrooms and a teachers’ home sponsored by a fishing company based at Walvis Bay last Thursday.
Minister of education, arts and culture Katrina Hanse-Himarwa officially received the two structures built at a cost exceeding
N$560 000.
Hanse-Himarwa, on behalf of government and community members of Kalkfeld, thanked the Deepsea Consolidated Investment CC fishing company for the sponsorship.
The minister said for her to receive a newly-built teachers’ home, a block of two classrooms with 70 chairs and desks is a good feeling.
She then urged other community members, parents and businesspeople in the country to emulate the good example and continue to assist her ministry wherever possible in order to improve the teaching and learning environment of a Namibian child.
“Education is [the] business of all of us as parents and businesspeople, since these children we are all interested in come from our homes,” she said.
The minister cautioned pupils against vandalism of the school property and urged them to maintain what they have so far.
Hanse-Himarwa also used the same platform to donate N$15 000 from the Himarwa Family Trust to the GK Wahl Combined School, which is to be used to erect a wire fence for the school.
Kalkfeld PS principal Matilda !Kharuxas told Nampa in an interview shortly after the event that the school has a total of 471 pupils from pre-primary to Grade 7 and is comprised of 18 teachers, including herself. Kalkfeld is situated 67 kilometres south of Otjiwarongo.
