Thank you everyone who has been reading my blog and giving me feedback! It's so great to be able to share my experiences here in Namibia with all of you!

As some of you may already know I am currently in the process of devising some fund raising ideas and methods for flood victims here in Namibia. Many people throughout my region and northern Namibia are being displaced due to severe flooding. There are currently 38 schools closed down in the Omusati region (two of which are placements of my fellow volunteers) alone due to the severity of conditions. Some schools may even be forced to have learners tenting on-site if transport to and from school on a daily basis remains an impossibility for too long. I am hoping to raise money for flood relief materials and supplies, as well as supplies and books for my school (and possibly schools of my fellow volunteers). I will keep you posted on my efforts; I think that we have the ability to do a lot of good and make a difference to people here who may be losing everything..and who had so very little to begin with.

Click on the link below to read more about the flooding in my region. There are currently 38 schools (and rising) in the Omusati region alone that are closed down due to the severity of the floods.

http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=2594

I would like to include an excerpt (word for word, excuse the grammatical errors, but in my eyes they make the story that much more effective) from a journal entry that one of my grade 9 girls wrote for me this week:

[On] the way to school there is a lot and a lot of water and every person and every car stopped to the water because there is a lot of water. After school we girls and boys make a deal boys they come with the rope so that one or two boys or girls can go over the water with rope and pull the people so that we can all com over the water. When I get home my clothes was wet and my self was shaking, my mother was very scared and ask me what happen to you self child? I said we walk in the water and now me my self is shaking. My mother harry [hurry] and boiled some water and call me so that I can go and bath after bath come and eat lunch. - Hello Kanenguni, grade 9A, Shaanika Nashilongo SS

Children are, very literally, swimming to school in many areas of our region. They are swimming and they are in class, on time, day after day. Sure puts snow days into perspective, doesn't it?