Imagine a classroom where the students sit on a log from a lack of chairs and write using their thighs for support of a notebook. This is the situation of the Omutwewomhedi Primary School (Grades 1 to 7) in the north of Namibia.
Namibia has made significant improvements since it became independent from South Africa in 1989. However, it still has serious problems, some of them carryovers from the apartheid system of segregation imposed by South Africa.
Many of the improvements have been uneven. New facilities in the urban areas are considerably better than those in rural areas. The Omutwewomhedhi school is in one of the isolated rural schools.
Most of the classrooms are still made of sticks with a thatch roof. It is too isolated to have electricity. Some students walk up to 10 km to get to school and many are orphans in a country with high rates of HIV/AIDS.
This school is looking for a twin (or twins) that can help with improving the material resources of the school and make a connection with the students.
If you are interested, you can get more information from Larry Kuehn (lkuehn@bctf.ca).
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