Paulina Moses, is a young and vibrant lady following her passion and making dreams come true.
B orn 25 years ago and brought up in Windhoek with her five siblings, Moses attended her Grade One in the North where she briefly stayed with her grandmother for a year. Moving back to Windhoek, she started her schooling with the Tobias Hainyeko Primary School where she was an active netball player and was nominated a prefect in her Grade Seventh year. Moses graduated from primary school and was accepted at Jan Möhr Secondary School where she graduated in 2006. “I really did sport for the fun of it as I enjoyed it so much. I started playing hockey in high school and I loved it, it was fun.”
Moses finished her Grade 12 in 2006 and enrolled at The University of Namibia (Unam). Her first option was then Media Studies and her second choice Psychology as she had a passion for both avenues. Growing up Moses would write a lot of songs and short stories, which later developed into poems. Her sister being in the media world herself, Moses dreamt of making her mark in the industry. “I look at the world as in feelings and emotions, studying human beings’ relations as their emotions fascinates me.”
Moses ended up studying both fields and graduated in 2011 with an Honours degree in Media Studies and Psychology. After graduating, she found employment at the Namib Times for nine months before moving to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in December 2013 as an information officer (Communication Officer). As an information officer Moses is responsible for reporting on community projects, which the government is running, and giving information to the public with regards to government projects. She is also responsible for promoting and developing the growth of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the Erongo region.
ICT is the way to, and as the world is developing, we need everyone to have access to basic ICT facilities and last month we opened a Multi-Purpose Youth Centre in Henties Bay through which community will have access to printers, 3G, PA systems, flat screens and computers.”
Moses started writing in her second year during the her journalism course doing investigative journalism when her lecturer at the time invited Max Hamata to come and address her class. During this session Moses engaged Hamata with questions in the field. The next day her lecturer gave Moses Hamata’s telephone number and she called and got a freelance job as entertainment journalist. Moses did the job and made a name for herself, she later started contributing to the main nwespaper as well.
Moses plans advancing in her career either in government or in the private sector and is following a Master’s degree in Business Administration. “Everyone is looking towards government to do something but government is just people that fall in society as well. I believe we should call on society and get our traditional leaders involved in the matter, educating our youth through life skills and at homes. Nobody owns another person and no one has the right to take another person’s life.” Her message to the youth “ is love each other as one love himself, do not be afraid to step out there and follow your dreams, hard work is the key to success”.