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July 2013 Mammadù Shelter, Otjomuise
Hi to all of you, hope you are all fine.
Following some news from the magic world of Mammadù.
In May we had our school holidays and so we went to visit our beautiful city. The kids love to go to town so they were all dressed up and really sweet.
First stop The Christus Church! They were truly amazed by the only painting next to the altar, some of them never saw a painting! For Petrus it was a huge experience and he whispered to me “Mammy there is Jesus!”. Then there was the organ and for the kids it was unbelievable that one plays
that instrument even with the feet.
We had a very nice guide there, very children friendly and able to explain them everything.
From there we moved to the Alte Feste the old German fort which is now a museum. While they were busy visiting the place I went to get muffins and juice for them for break time, believing that after all that culture they would be very hungry. And so it was.
When I met them again and asked them what the liked most in the museum, all of them were agreeing: “the fishes”. I was truly astonished because as far as I knew there are no fishes at the museum… but that’s not true, there are!! There is a little fountain in the middle of the fort and there are fishes!! And they were the highlight of our trip.
Can you believe? Just a few fishes? Then I thought that these children most probably never saw a real fish. At Mammadù they eat fish every week because it’s healthy, but they come out of a tin and where should they have seen fishes if not in a book!!! Well we had then break time in Parliament Park and then a stop at the playground at zoo park, they deserved it as the behaved impeccable.
Lukas, one of our great 1 learners is going on with his gym classes and he is doing so well that he will participate in a special training session in SA during August. We are really very lucky, because the 7000 Namibian Dollars, but as Lukas is really talented the club covers half of the costs and so we could effort to send Lukas too. He is already very exited and we got also his passport ready. I truly believe that we have to support a child in his talent and help him in any way we can to improve. A talent is a gift of God and we have to do everything to support that.
Now all of them are back to school and all of them are studying hard, because we tell them every day that only going to school and learning the most they can because it’s very important.
Hope you enjoy the pictures. Have a lovely day.
Agnes