Building a school is the easy part. Sustaining a quality learning environment that addresses the needs of girls and boys requires vision, commitment and partnership.

A Story from Gobabis

There is no running water, electricity and sanitation service on the outskirts of the frontier town of Gobabis, Namibia, and little access to schools, social services and medical care. But this is where temporary, unregulated housing is expanding, and where hundreds of children, many of them orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, are growing up in poverty.

A new playground in Gobabis is not only a place for at-risk children to have fun and simply be children, it’s a community focal point that discourages them from getting involved in less desirable activities by providing them with a safe sport and recreation facility where they can exercise.