A total of 74 orphans and vulnerable learners from the Mbambangandu Junior Primary School in the Sambyu Constituency received school uniforms from the Nautilus Fishing company through the Mundi Wetu project here on Wednesday.
Speaking during the official handover of the uniforms, school principal Lagia Nairenge expressed gratitude over the donation, thanking the company for their kindness of donating school uniforms worth N.dollars 15 000.
Nairenge said many of the learners at the school are orphans or live with a single parent or in a child-headed home, or live with grandparents who depend on the Old Age Grant.
This, she said makes it difficult for the parents or the guardians who depend on subsistence farming to cater to the basic primary needs of their children.
“Thus the Mundi Wetu project through Nautilus Fishing saw that our learners needed school uniform and realised that our learners live under difficult social and economic conditions,” the principal said.
The company lessened the burden of parents who are unable or cannot afford to buy the uniforms for their children, Nairenge noted.
The owner of Mundi Wetu project, Elizabeth Shiyagaya said she approached the fishing company and asked them to assist two schools in Sambyu, but as the company did not have enough funds it chose Mbambangandu.
Shiyagaya encouraged those learners who received uniforms to study hard as they are the future leaders.
“You need to study hard and be disciplined so that you too can one day help the people that are donating these uniforms to you,” she said.
Mbambangandu Junior Primary School is situated 30 kilometres east of Rundu.
The school has 452 learners with 13 teachers.