Great teachers care about their learners, inside of the classroom and out.

This is true for a teacher at Gobabis who has been running a holiday club for the past four years, where she has taken responsibility to feed street children and those from vulnerable backgrounds.

Maria Musita spent Christmas Day playing traditional games on the street with some children in the town's informal settlement.

Maria Musita's passion for children is visible. From the onset, her face lights up when she speaks about children.

Her day job is teaching, but teaching for her is not confined to the classroom.

This is Musita's house, a humble setting where she feeds and teaches about 40 vulnerable children three times a week.

"When the school closes, some kids are going on holiday, and I felt I did not have anything to do, so I took it on my heart to help my location kids. Some parents are going to work without giving kids food, so I do not have food at home, so I opened a holiday club. Three days a week, Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, I cook for these kids, play with them, read them a bible story, and just do the basic things a parent will do."

Musita admits that the task she has taken on carries huge responsibilities and is also costly.

She says she is a woman of faith and is serving a purpose.

"Sometimes God gives everyone a special thing in himself, a gift, that we do not know about until you search. I've worked with these kids since COVID-19. I have tried to work with adults, but then I thought, Why not go back to the kids? I grew fond of kids, and God gave me the gift of giving these kids special attention."

There are some international NGO's that have heard of Musita's work, and time and again she receives little financial and material aid.

On Christmas Day, a couple from the Netherlands visited Musita; they too run a similar project back home.

"We are learning from Maria; because we are not African, it's good to come and see how she is doing here. We have a different culture, but we have the heart in the right place for children that are lost and they want to be found."

Musita serves as a mentor, guide, and role model, and her acts of kindness and humanity leave an indelible impact on the lives of these people that extends far beyond the game on the street.