WINDHOEK- School Children at the mix settlement will soon have an eLearning server hotspot installed together with tablets valued at approximately N$81 000 to be sponsored by various stakeholders through the Auas Rotary Club (ARS) and the school has a total number of 91 learners who will each receive a tablet.
The tablets will be directly linked to the hotspot and will be accessible to learners within a maintained radius.
This was announced on Monday by Maurice Nkusi a member of ARS during the 110 anniversary of International Rotary foundation, who maintained that the tablets will remain the school property, while the club will be responsible for the server maintenance and hotspot update.
The sponsorship comes after the ARC had spotted the Mix Early Childhood Development (ECD) project which vowed that 181 learners are not enrolled in school because of a lack of space in classrooms and the N$80 monthly fee that some parents cannot afford to pay.
Nkusi further added a classroom will be built to accommodate those children that are not attending school. Amongst other beneficiaries were Hope Initiative Southern Africa (HOPE) located in Kilimanjaro, Komeho Namibia in Kaisosi (Rundu) and Lebensschule in Rehoboth.
HOPE received educational materials such as 110 animated dictionaries, 100 pens and calculators. HOPE project offers educational programme of preschool and bridging courses to children who either dropped or not attended school and they are over 10 years of age.
Whereas the Komeho project in Kaisosi aims to improve the quality, cost effectiveness and impacts of development programmes and projects in order to revive and sustain rural and urban economy. The project received 15 hippos in addition to 5 which had been donated by the Rotary Beremen based in Germany, while Lebensschule had received fiber grass carpet.
At the occasion the former President of ARC Haaveshe Nekongo said ARC might be a small rotary club but has made immense progress in areas they have touched around the country.
“We are not only based in Windhoek but we are everywhere and this has been made possible with the help of donors and sponsors together with the other Rotary clubs around the world.”Said Nekongo.