Miss Namibia 2025 Johanna Swartbooi inaugurated the first-ever IIHAPO wall at Augustineum Secondary School in Windhoek.
The dream wall aims to motivate and inspire school learners to pursue their dreams.
Swartbooi encouraged learners to note down or journal their dreams, no matter how insignificant or impossible they seem.
"One thing that I'm sure of is that writing down is very powerful. Every single dream that I have written down, it doesn't matter how big. I have a scrapbook and 70 dreams that I have written down so far. When an idea pops up, I write it down, whatever it is. I want to be Miss Namibia. I have written down all my dreams in a numbered list, but sometimes I forget about them. You forget where you put the book sometimes, but one day when you come back, you will be surprised by how many things you have ticked off and that you have achieved."
The principal, Rudolf Mutenga, explained that the school aims to keep the wall for as long as possible so that once learners accomplish their dreams, they can return and show others where it all started.
"We will try to leave it for a longer period for these students to finish university and come back and motivate other learners to say, 'Look here. In 2025, I was here; I had a dream with Miss Namibia. I wanted to become a lawyer. Here is my writing. I'm a lawyer here today.' I believe that one day you will come back in that attire of a lawyer so that they can see that a dream can be a reality."
Miss World Namibia 2025, Selma Kamanya, advised learners to dream big because everything starts with a dream.
"Every great success story, from Nelson Mandela's fight for freedom to our Namibian athletes breaking records to our Namibian pageant girls being incredible on stage internationally. To everyday heroes in our communities. It starts with a dream. A dream provides you direction; a dream provides you purpose. It reminds you that where you come from does not determine where you can go."