Global Hand Washing Day in Omega

We posted this picture to show you our Global
Hand Washing Day activity with the students in
our kindergarten.

We promote health issues as part of our work
here in the Omega 1 mission.

To teach the children while they are still young will
help in the present and will bring even more rewards
in the future.

Diarrhea is a big problem in Africa, especially in
the rural areas. By teaching the children at this
young age they will learn that by just plain
washing one's hands, that it can do a lot for
preventing them from having this problem.

This photo was taken as they were washing their
hands before they ate their morning snack.

Radio bible

In the picture you can see one of the radio bibles
in the hands of a gentleman.
We have distributed as part of a test project
bibles to people handicapped and for those
who do not know how to read.

At the end of last year we received about 20 of these
solar powered radio bibles. At first we took the bibles
to our mission and we showed them to the people. There
was a great interest and we distributed them to several
blind people and others.

As a result of the interest we will add to our future activities
the distribution of more of these solar bibles throughout
our mission and if possible, even to further areas.

These solar radio bibles are a great resource and allows
people who have trouble seeing the opportunity to hear
the word of God.

Kongola 2007

In November 2007 I returned to Namibia
to do help build the Kongola Center (in picture)
and build a church in the village of Sangwali.

It took ten months of hard work to complete the
center as seen in the picture. There were 12 of
us whom worked for the whole ten months and
other volunteers arrived and spent a month at a
time.

After completing the work in Kongola and Sangwali
I left Namibia in September 2008.

First time - Oshivelo 2007

In June 2007, I arrived in Namibia for the first time
as part of the group in the picture (above).
We landed in the capital Windhoek in June.
Five of us came from Spain to help build a church
in the Ovambo Land region of Namibia. The
church was built in Oshivelo.
We worked for one month until we completed the
church. The picture was taken after we finished
and before we left Namibia.
At this time the church has 18 people baptized
and attending services, 40 members and is
growing.

Introduction to this blog

Welcome to Life's Territory blog. In this blog
we will post articles about what we are doing here
in the Caprivi and Kavango regions in the northern
part of Namibia.
In this first posting I would like to describe some of
the activities we are doing.

In April 2010 we opened one kindergarten in a Eyey
(tribe) village called Sangwali in the Caprivi region,
the northwestern most part of the country of Namibia.
We occupied a building near a church and opened the
kindergarten for approximately 30 children. It has
been active since the beginning and is growing slowly
but surely.

Also in May 2010 we opened another kindergarten
in a majority San (Khwe) village called Omega 1 in
the east Kavango region.
We actually re-opened a kindergarten which was
closed when the South African Defense Force left
in 1989.
Omega 1 was an old military base from the time of the
occupation of Namibia by South Africa.
The building was used during the occupation time as
a kindergarten for the soldiers' children.
It was closed in 1989 as a kindergarten and after
20 years we've re-opened it again to it's original
use.
When we arrived in August 2009 the building was
in dire need of repairs. For the first nine months
we worked to reclaim the building from it's abandoned
state.
Though the building is in better condition we are still
a ways away from finishing the renovations.
At the present the kindergarten has about 25 children
from several local tribes.
Just like as the building we are in the process of
improving and developing the kindergarten.

The priorities of our kindergartens is to educate the
younger children so as to give them a better start
when they attend school. If they are prepared they
will perform better during their school years.
The education consists of areas such as social,
educational and spiritual.

There is more to do and we are here to also
develop the areas that we are living and working in.

At this time I would to thank all the people who
have supported these projects and made it possible
for us to work in Africa.