More than a thousand learners at Swakopmund's Festus !Gonteb Primary school will no longer be forced to share one computer among them.

This follows a donation of 80 computers to the school, by a mining company, Basil Read.

At 58 years old, Festus !Gonteb Primary school is one of the oldest public schools in Swakopmund.

It is attended mostly by children from Mondesa and the impoverished DRC informal settlement.

The school principal Lengi Abraham says valuable teaching and learning resources are a challenge for the school to attain, which is why donors are so essential.

Up until the donation more than one thousand learners at the school were forced to share a single computer with their teachers when they needed to do research.
Some learners at the school described the situation as disastrous and time-consuming. 
Moreover, computer lessons could only be taught theoretically, until the Basil Read donation.

Chris Bedja, the Area Contract Manager of Basil Read Mining  says as mining contractors they are there to develop the young Namibians and donation is their way of giving back to the community

The primary school principal has called on the private sector to support disadvantaged schools with learning resources.