Onguta School Namibia - support

Onguta School  

The community, pupils, and teachers are incredibly grateful to the generosity of AfriCat UK Supporters who helped to raise the money to build the new Onguta Community Primary School in the Ehirovipuka Conservancy. The school is now operational much to everyone’s delight. Thank you to everyone who donated. To see the smiles on the faces of staff and pupils is enough! 

However, to help this community further at a time of deep crisis with covid and a drought to contend with; additional funds would be much appreciated by them to help with meals, maintenance, and equipment.  

The Onguta School can support sixty children from a number of farming communities in the Ehirovipuka Conservancy. Onguta’s pupils keenly attended their classes happily walking long distances to attend and occasionally staying with those living more locally. To maintain the current number of teachers, which is two, the school roll needs to stay around 60. One solution the community are considering is a small boarding house for children to stay  allowing more to come and saving them a very long walk to attend.

In July 2019, the new Onguta School was gifted to the community using funds raised in the UK and elsewhere including a particularly generous donation from the Netherlands. This was a joyous occasion.

When the ‘Cowboys’, the family-run business who took on the challenge of building the Onguta school in six weeks, from reconditioned shipping containers. The school therefore has classrooms, ablutions, stores rooms, offices, kitchen, meeting space, water, and solar panels for electricity. However, on a visit in 2020 the water pump had broken and the school was awaiting its repair by the water company. 

The ‘Cowboys’ Team who agreed to defer payment until September 2020 and with covid 19 were in urgent need of payment. The Namibian Lion Trust with support from friends and AfriCat UK just managed to settle the outstanding bill on 30 September 2020, which is good news all round.

Any help you can give is so much appreciated by the pupils teachers and community  

AfriCat UK is working in partnership with the Namibian Lion Trust  More details www.africat.co.uk and www.namibianliontrust.org