Maria David
MTC employees, in partnership with MVA Fund and Namib Mills, donated over 250 sleeping mattresses and essential food supplies to Cocoma Primary School in the Ndiyona circuit of the Kavango East Region.
The donation is a significant contribution through MTC Care, an employee-led initiative aimed at assisting communities with funds voluntarily contributed by MTC employees.
MTC spokesperson Elisabeth Massamba emphasized the importance of providing necessities like mattresses to ensure a good night’s sleep for learners. Massamba highlighted the link between adequate rest and academic performance, stating that it is difficult to talk about equality in education if hostels, meant to be safe spaces for learners, lack proper infrastructure.
“That is why, as employees of MTC, having learned of the conditions at Cocoma Primary, we decided to help with what we can,” she said.
MTC Care has made similar humanitarian contributions in the past, including assisting leprosy patients in Omashare, providing sanitary pads for learners in Koes, feeding the Men on the Side of the Road in Windhoek, donating an electric wheelchair to a student, and aiding single mothers whose homes were destroyed by fires in Windhoek and Walvis Bay.
Receiving the donation, school principal Moses Ndumba expressed his appreciation for the efforts of MTC employees and their collaboration with MVA Fund and Namib Mills, acknowledging the importance of such contributions in creating a conducive learning environment for the school’s learners.
“We are highly appreciative of the support we have received today. Some of our learners have been sleeping on the ground or on beds without mattresses, which is highly uncomfortable,” he said.
He added that they are therefore grateful for the donation, understanding the positive impact it will have on the living conditions of the pupils at the school.