MTC staff donate to Cocoma Primary School
Maria David
MTC staff, in partnership with MVA Fund and Namib Mills, donated over 250 sleeping mattresses and important meals provides to Cocoma Primary School within the Ndiyona circuit of the Kavango East Region.
The donation is a major contribution by MTC Care, an employee-led initiative aimed toward aiding communities with funds voluntarily contributed by MTC staff.
MTC spokesperson Elisabeth Massamba emphasised the significance of offering requirements like mattresses to make sure an excellent night time’s sleep for learners. Massamba highlighted the hyperlink between sufficient relaxation and educational efficiency, stating that it’s troublesome to speak about equality in schooling if hostels, meant to be protected areas for learners, lack correct 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 mentioned.
MTC Care has made related humanitarian contributions previously, together with aiding leprosy sufferers in Omashare, offering sanitary pads for learners in Koes, feeding the Men on the Side of the Road in Windhoek, donating an electrical wheelchair to a pupil, and aiding single moms whose properties have been destroyed by fires in Windhoek and Walvis Bay.
Receiving the donation, faculty principal Moses Ndumba expressed his appreciation for the efforts of MTC staff and their collaboration with MVA Fund and Namib Mills, acknowledging the significance of such contributions in making a conducive studying atmosphere for the college’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 mentioned.
He added that they’re due to this fact grateful for the donation, understanding the constructive affect it can have on the residing circumstances of the pupils on the faculty.
