Dinapama Manufacturing and Supplies has donated more than 4 000 masks to eight schools in the Khomas Rural Constituency in order to help curb the spread of COVID-19.
The masks worth N.dollars 235 000 were donated to the Aris Grundschule, Baumgartsbrunn, Bloukrans, Dordabis, Groot Aub, Kwakwas and Nicolas Witbooi Memorial primary schools as well as the Groot Aub Secondary School.
At the handover ceremony in the capital, Dinapama Managing Director David Namalenga said COVID-19 is a new challenge education is facing and it needs to be addressed by people holding hands.
“The pandemic has laid bare a lot of our country’s shortcomings and how we will resolve this depends on the collective capacity of our individual efforts,” he said.
Namalenga said the company decided to support learners so they can continue the learning process because nobody knows how long the pandemic will last.
Receiving the donation on behalf of the schools, the Khomas Region’s Director of Education Gerard Vries called on the principals to ensure that the learners do not share masks and to ensure that other measures are in place to ensure that COVID-19 does not spread further.
Namibia had 31 confirmed cases of COVID-19 by Wednesday.