LÜDERITZ – Nedbank Namibia stepped up to help feed orphans and vulnerable children who rely on the Red Ribbon Club Soup Kitchen, in Lüderitz, for a meal.
The Red Ribbon Club Soup Kitchen is an initiative of the Lüderitz Junior Secondary School and feeds about 350 learners. The kitchen feeds the learners thus enhancing learners’ productive learning and participation in all school activities, said Crystal Jantjies, the Life Skills teacher at Lüderitz Junior Secondary School.
Last week Nedbank Namibia donated N$ 32 000 to the kitchen. “This grant from Nedbank Namibia will ensure that our learners would be fed every day, which will have snowballing effects like higher motivation and higher concentration levels, as well as active participation in school activities by our learners, it will also enhance and create awareness and a culture of care amongst our learners, teachers as well as community members,” said Jantjies.
Many of the learners at the school do not have a proper meal and this influences their motivation and productiveness. The kitchen serves soup three times a week, fish twice per week, as well as bread that is served daily.
The cleaners at the school, who volunteer to cook the meals daily, man the kitchen. The teachers donate soup and other ingredients; with local fishing companies donate fish on a weekly basis. The Red Ribbon Club was established in 2003.
By Tuulikki Abraham