13.5m booklets delivered, 360 000 more to come
The African Child Development Trust (ACDT), founded in 2020 to help Namibian schools access important learning materials and resources, has delivered about 13.5 million educational booklets since its inception.This with the support of the Capricorn Foundation, and the partners are poised to deliver 360 000 more booklets to learners this year.
This entails the distribution of 60 000 booklets a month – 30 000 to pre-primary schools as well as 10 000 to grade one, two and three classes respectively. The booklets are in nine Namibian languages.
According to project coordinator Sharnay Botha, the goal is to lay a sound foundation for these learners. “It is easy to invest in university students because you can see the results within three years – but for this project, we won’t see the results before at the very least 12 years,” she said. “But investing in these young children will be more efficient since they won’t need a lot of help later in life due to the solid foundation we are laying here.”
For every child
Last weekend, ACDT and Marlize Horn from the Capricorn Foundation visited Love Your Neighbour Pre-Primary School in Windhoek’s Okuryangava for the handover of booklets.
She said the foundation and the trust, along with other stakeholders, are “like-minded organisations that are proud to be supporting this amazing initiative”.
“We want to make sure that every child in Namibia has access to quality educational material,” she added.
Printed at Network Media Hub affiliate company Print Media Hub, the booklets are helpful resources for both learners and teachers, ACDT said. Meanwhile, additional resources for teachers are also available online.
Trudy Swartz, a teacher at Love Your Neighbour, expressed her gratitude for the resources and help they received. “We are in a place where we are not able to have those resources, but you make time, you make those booklets for us. We are very happy,” she said.
Botha added that the difficult part about providing these resources is that some schools are not easily accessible.
“For some of these schools, the only way to find them is to go into the communities on foot and look around,” she explained.
She further noted that the project is an important investment for the future and thanked the Capricorn Foundation for its support and contributions over the last couple of years.
This entails the distribution of 60 000 booklets a month – 30 000 to pre-primary schools as well as 10 000 to grade one, two and three classes respectively. The booklets are in nine Namibian languages.
According to project coordinator Sharnay Botha, the goal is to lay a sound foundation for these learners. “It is easy to invest in university students because you can see the results within three years – but for this project, we won’t see the results before at the very least 12 years,” she said. “But investing in these young children will be more efficient since they won’t need a lot of help later in life due to the solid foundation we are laying here.”
For every child
Last weekend, ACDT and Marlize Horn from the Capricorn Foundation visited Love Your Neighbour Pre-Primary School in Windhoek’s Okuryangava for the handover of booklets.
She said the foundation and the trust, along with other stakeholders, are “like-minded organisations that are proud to be supporting this amazing initiative”.
“We want to make sure that every child in Namibia has access to quality educational material,” she added.
Printed at Network Media Hub affiliate company Print Media Hub, the booklets are helpful resources for both learners and teachers, ACDT said. Meanwhile, additional resources for teachers are also available online.
Trudy Swartz, a teacher at Love Your Neighbour, expressed her gratitude for the resources and help they received. “We are in a place where we are not able to have those resources, but you make time, you make those booklets for us. We are very happy,” she said.
Botha added that the difficult part about providing these resources is that some schools are not easily accessible.
“For some of these schools, the only way to find them is to go into the communities on foot and look around,” she explained.
She further noted that the project is an important investment for the future and thanked the Capricorn Foundation for its support and contributions over the last couple of years.
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