Mix community begs Govt to open school

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Mix settlement community members are pleading with the government to open up a school that was built here in 2017, stressing their children are denied an education due to the lack of school facilities.

The partially built school has a block of three classrooms, an office and toilet facilities.

Speaking to Nampa on Tuesday, community leader Jonas Nghifikwa said parents were hoping for the school to open during the 2023 academic year, however they are continuing to suffer the same fate year after year.

“We are hoping for the school to be opened, many parents have children who are not attending school because they cannot afford the N.dollars 600 taxi fare per month or send their children to boarding schools,” he said.

Nghifikwa also asked the councillor to intervene with their challenges regarding the school, noting that the community is in dire need of a school in the area.

A parent of six, Teresia Simeon fumed that parents have now resorted to the four private schools in the area which charged N.dollars 200 per month per child, however noting that it is expensive for parents with many children.

“We do not want our children to be as uneducated as us. Hence we are fighting with the little we earn to put our children through private school, though it is really expensive. We are hoping for the ministry to open up the public school,” she said.

Efforts to get comment from the Khomas Region Education Director, Paulus Nghikembua proved futile.

Windhoek Rural Councillor Piet Adam told this agency in January 2022 that the government’s plan to open the school in phases starting from Grade 1 to 2 during the 2022 academic year was hampered by a lack of water and electricity.

Nampa was unable to reach the councillor at the time of publication.

The Mix community outside Windhoek has an early childhood development (ECD) centre under the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, which opened in April 2022 with an intake of 74 children.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency