Youth Corner

Lubowski Kadila is the founder and CEO of Anchor Adventures, a Namibian tour operator who focuses on a different way in which travellers experience Namibia. 

Windhoek-born Telefina Sion Haindongo is a young dexterous individual when it comes to designing and arranging faux and paper flowers.

As a means of addressing the challenge of unemployment, the youth ministry in collaboration with the Development Bank of Namibia, recently advanced loans to the tune of N$8 million to 28 youth enterprises from across the country.

Young entrepreneur and abstract artist Celine Marie Louise Gautrois or ‘CelineThePoet’ – as she is known on her social media platforms – says it is important for novice business owners to believe in their vision. 

“Educate your children to self-control, the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society,” Benjamin Franklin

Millions of children around the world walk to school, carrying their books and school supplies in their hands or plastic bags because they cannot afford a backpack.

Growing up in the remote Outwilo village near Ondobe in the Ohangwena region, Teopolina Nghinaunye always had an outlook to change things for the better for herself and others. 

The Next Einstein Forum Africa Science Week recently took place, in Gaborone, Botswana. It was run under the theme ‘Harnessing the potential of natural resources towards sustainable Science, Technology and Innovation’. 

The Bank of Namibia (BoN) will in September this year host its biennial National High School competition to educate learners about the role of the central bank and the local economy. 

Using money she recently obtained through a Commonwealth Games Federation scholarship, Petrina Aron created a holiday camp for children in Katutura to keep them busy with positive activities.