Education Namibia Project #19438

School fees and uniforms for 14 Mammadu kids

by Mammadu Trust

School fees and uniforms for 14 Mammadu kids

Project Report | Jun 9, 2015
How Mammadu safes the Rhinos

By Agnes Albrecht | Founder and Manager of Mammadu

King Universe (Petrus) and his Queen Aruma

I don’t know if you heard about but seams that now rhino poaching reached even us in Namibia in Etosha Park. A few weeks ago 31 carcasses have been found. This is a real disaster and so sad. Mammadu thought to do something for these wonderful animals and we spoke a lot with the kids about, they made a lovely poster and wrote wonderful words for the safeguard of the rhinos and they put together a little drama. King Universe (Petrus) is very sick, the Queen (Aruma) find’s out that there is a special medicine which seams to help, made out of rhino horns. The king sends all his poachers to Africa to kill all the rhinos and bring him the horns. In Etosha park the last few rhinos (all our little ones) are peacefully eating, Daddy Rhino (Kevin) instructs Baby Rhino Mammadu (Josia) to eat from that tree so that he becomes strong and powerful like his dad, Mamie Rhino (Mekupi) doesn’t want her son to go too far away as she is scared of lions, but Baby Rhino moves away as instructed by his dad. When the poachers arrive, they kill all the rhinos and leave with the horns, just baby rhino survived behind the tree, he finds his whole family and all his friends killed and starts crying, but the Great Spirit of all Rhinos (Augusto) appears and tells him to go to king Universe to teach him that rhino horns wont help to make him feel better, he could chew his own nails and it would be the same, the King needs a true doctor! So they travel all over the world to King Universe. The King even after he finished all his rhino horn Shakes is still dying when Baby Rhino arrives with the Doctor (Lukas). The Doctor quickly does surgery, takes out the tumour and The King is fine and happy again, but Baby Rhino is crying desperately because he is the only survivor, so The King decides immediately to fly Baby Rhino together with an other few rhinos from his personal zoo in his private jet back to Etosha, where they can live and grow in peace as they are protected for ever by King Universe.

The kids did great, learned their parts by hart and acted wonderfully, the most difficult part was to keep the “dead” rhinos dead, the little ones really struggled not to move, not to talk and not to giggle but at the end the managed!

If some one of you is good in drawings or knows somebody else, we could make a book for kids out of this story to support the Rhinos!! Let me know.

All the Rhinos

The Baby Rhino (Josia)

King and Baby Rhino Best friends!

Rhino Poster

All of us

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Mar 24, 2015
Kids grow so fast

By Agnes Albrecht | Founder of Mammadu and Manager of Mammadu Centre

Aruma doing maths

Hi to all of you

The new year started and we are operating on full range. It is so amazing how fast our kids are growing. It seams like yesterday to me when Petrus and Aruma were attending our pre-school, and now they are in grate 3 and they are able to read, what a blessing after all the hours spent on practising. It is so surprising to me that it’s them reading now the letters we receive from you, yes only the typed ones because the handwritten ones are still a bit of an issue.

Now our new grate one students have to start with their reading and the numbers. They know the alphabet but to put together the sounds is a huge step for them. They easily memorize the words and so it seams they are already perfectly able to read, but if you then change the order and ask them to read this and that word…. You just see lips shaping for the correct sound and if they don’t remember the word they guess… Sesiria even explained me that one doesn’t read jumping from one word to an other but that you always have to start from the beginning. Girls can be really sharp

We received a new kitchen, well a toy kitchen. It is really very cute with all the small pots, pans, plates and tee cups and even the stove with all the little details. Now the favourite play is “Restaurant”. Some of them cook, mostly Dennis and the others enjoy the food, grass is our spaghetti dish and little stones are our meat dishes. The kids truly put a lot of care in the food preparation and also the tables are laid out perfectly. Maybe you have to come once to our new “Restaurant”.

Often I’m asked what we need and I always say everything. And this is true, but unfortunately not everything can be brought with or sent.

We need water to wash the kids, for cooking and for the toilets, we need electricity for the lights, the fridge and the freezer, we need food, we need petrol for our school bus, we need school fees, we need soaps, brooms and tyres…..we need everything and most of these items are not fancy and definitely not very satisfactory to bring with but still we truly need them.

Mammadu is accommodating now 40 kids and has 3 employees, a teacher, a cook and a cleaning lady. We cook around 100 meals a day, we use nearly 25 litres of cleaning products a month and 2 tubes of toothpaste a week, just some examples to give you an idea.

At the end of the day we need a lot of money to afford all this and it’s thanks to you all, who financed Mammadu over the last years.

I just want to thank you for all your love

Petrus doing Homework

The "new Kitchen"

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