Project Hope has donated school uniforms to more than 50 learners and water tanks to schools in the Kavango East Region.

The project aims to help children from the age of zero to 17 who are from disadvantaged backgrounds.
 
The schools that benefited from the project are Maputa, Thikanduko, Shipando, Karukuta, and Aloys Hashipara Primary Schools.

The project targets helping children living with HIV, those born to female sex workers, victims of GBV, children living in child-headed households, orphans, young mothers, and pregnant children.

Project Hope's Regional Programme Manager, Kakororo Clara, says the initial plan was to build toilets in Kavango East and West, Omusati, and Ohangwena regions.

She says due to implementation time constraints, the plan was modified to include providing water tanks and school uniforms.

"51 beneficiaries or clients in the NAR programme, of which 34 learners are from the Kavango East Region, were identified in the household by our community care worker based on assessing their needs in four domains, which are health, schools, stable, and safe. Through the school domain, it was identified that these learners lacked school uniforms or didn't have proper school uniforms at all, and this need was addressed by buying them school uniforms, which will be donated to a few today because the rest have already been given out at house level."
 
Project Hope donated a full school uniform set to all the beneficiaries.

Receiving the donations, the Education Inspector of Shambyu Circuit Anna Mateya appreciated the donation.

"And this water that we are about to receive as well will tremendously benefit the learners, especially our absenteeism learners because they will not stay away from school anymore because it happens sometimes that when we run out of water we have to reduce our periods because we have to think of the learners that have to walk a long distance from the tire road up there to come down and look for water at the river side, so this water tank that we are going to get will generate both social and economic benefits."
 
Project Hope will take care of the installation of the water tanks and also pay for labour costs.