Affiliations

Working effectively in the vast expanse of Southern Africa is nearly impossible without partnerships. Namib Futures is already closely aligned with a couple of organizations, but we are actively looking for new affiliations where we can share resources and thought leadership and generally get as much as we can from finite resources.

Mondesa Youth Opportunities

Mondesa Youth Opportunities (MYO) is an academic-based youth development program that was started in 2003 by Robert Myres, who also serves on the board of Namib Futures. Elron Awase also serves on the board of both organizations.

MYO provides intensive academic education to 125 learners across grades 4 – 8. MYO learners come to the MYO campus each school day after their regular schooling. They first get an important nutritious lunch and then they attend an additional 3-hours of classroom instruction in maths, reading, English, Life Skills and Music. MYO alumni perform significantly above their peers in High School and many have gone on to become doctors, engineers, lawyers, business professionals, writers, airline pilots and a variety of other professions.

MYO also operates a pre-school in conjunction with an excellent German charity called ‘Little House of Hope’. At LHoH, young disadvantaged children from Mondesa are provided with nutritious meals and early education activities.

In many ways, the affiliation between MYO and Namib Futures is a natural extension of our desire to support education initiatives from pre-school all the way through to university and beyond. Where MYO does the hard work of providing the strong basic education, Namib Futures focuses on young adults who have proven their motivation and just need that helping hand to get through to the next level.

Silver Lining

Silver Lining is an aid organization that was founded by Sue Wagner in 2000, during COVID, to address the extreme poverty that expanded dramatically during this time. Namibia has never fully recovered from COVID and the amount of people living in extreme poverty and very dire conditioins continues to expand.

Sue converts donations to aid packages of food, clothes, toiletries, cooking gas, school supplies and and a host of other items and delivers them to families that are extremely marginalized. Sue has no overhead as she does not get paid and she absorbs the costs of her driving each day into the townships to identify those most in need and deliver their aid. Her donations are never enough of course but Silver Lining does what they can.

While Namib Futures is primarily a development initiative, we recognize the suffering in the communities we serve and are proud to be affiliated with and a support of Silver Lining.