Onguta School Namibia - building costs

Onguta School  

The community, pupils, and teachers are very grateful to the generosity of AfriCat UK Supporters who have already raised over $1 million Namibia dollars for the new Onguta Community Primary School in the Ehirovipuka Conservancy. The school is now operational much to everyone’s delight however further funds are needed to complete paying for it!  Can you help?  

The Onguta School supports sixty children from a number of farming communities in the Ehirovipuka Conservancy. Until mid-2019, Onguta’s youngest keenly attended their classes in the rain, dust and wind, with summer temperatures reaching 45 degrees housed in ex-army tents.

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; it made sense to include all the essential elements for the school in one go, rather than build in it in two stages, as the fundraising had planned. The school therefore has classrooms, ablutions, stores rooms, offices, kitchen, meeting space, water, and solar panels for electricity, with a new fundraising campaign started.  

The ‘Cowboys’ Team who agreed to defer payment until September 2020 are now are in dire straits, locked down in the town of Swakopmund, Namibia, unable to do business due to the present COVID-19 predicament. The Namibian Lion Trust is committed to settling the outstanding bill of currently £28,000 by 30 September 2020

Any help you can give is so much appreciated 

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