Help 300 flood affected children in Namibia

After School Programme for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (ASPOVC) is a charitable non-profit run exclusively by volunteers registered under the Ministry of Health and Social Services as Welfare Organization in terms of Section 19 of the National Welfare Act, 1965 (Act 79 of 1965), as amended. We work together with international and local partners on collaborative children’s development projects.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

• Started in 2023, the project aims to provide basic safety education to vulnerable children and youth, engaged them with essential entrepreneurial skills from an early stage.
• It envisioned to empower next generation to develop business acumen and help them with a start-up capital and offers a comprehensive curriculum and practical workshops designed to introduce children to the world of entrepreneurship, laying the foundation for future success.

Long-Term Impact

• The project had establish partnership with local institutions, government agencies and relevant stakeholders for prolonged activities.
• Follow on activities include mentorship and advocacy for  young entrepreneurs who will take their training further into practice.

AS children and community continues to cope with the negative societal effects brought on by floods, ASPOVC has been so far assisting affected parties to deal with extensive economic losses, consequently affecting their livelihoods, businesses and daily basic services.

Since affected parties depends on subsistence farming as their source of income and only survival, it’s a major part of the survival has been destroyed by the effect of floods.

It’s then the major and incredible work of our organization ASPOVC to offer psychosocial support to affected community, continue providing afternoon classes to school going children, contact effective referrals for total healing and help sustain for the children safe space.

During the period under review, we helped children to attend school regularly, provide them food, additional classes and engaged them in arts, sport and Christianity activities.

We are pleased to report that since December 2023, we had started with formal awareness of floods preparedness among the affected community due to fact that the critical flooding period is expected during the month of March 2024.

Currently the project is busy with program for engaging government ministries to lobby and pull them in so that the protection for affected community would be maximized this year.

It is therefore needs to raise more funds to enable this project to realise its objectives and continue.

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