| King Kauluma gets his own children’s orphanage |
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An N$60 million orphanage, to be named King Kauluma Children’s Orphanage, will be constructed on the outskirts of Ondangwa. A groundbreaking ceremony for the orphanage took place on 21 June.
The Live Life Foundation, an initiative of Leading Lodges of Africa, together with the Ondonga traditional authority under the leadership of His Majesty King Immanuel Kauluma Elifas have joined forces in raising funds to build an orphanage. The groundbreaking ceremony was for the first phase of the project, which will host an administrative building, a medical centre, a school, a playground and accommodation. During the first phase of the project, the orphanage will accommodate 100 HIV/ AIDS orphans and other orphans from the area. The first phase of construction will commence within the next four weeks and will be completed within the next 12 months; thereafter phase two and three will be constructed to ultimately host 200 to 250 orphans. “I am humbled by the extraordinary energetic efforts which the Van de Vijver family and all the trustees of the King Kauluma Children’s trust have invested in this wonderful project. It is our duty as leaders of this country to ensure that our children of this community are educated and groomed to become respectable citizens of Namibia, “ King Elifas said. Funds were raised nationally and internationally, the main sponsors being Leading Lodges of Africa, Afrisam, Leading Designs and Plans, Trans Namib, BCI, the Windhoek Vocational Training Centre and Guido De Clercq of Fabiola Incorporated in Namibia. As Namibia celebrates the month of the African Child, Prime Minister Angula said: “The future of our country lies with our children. This cannot be stressed enough and surely we can never do enough to develop our children. I am therefore pleased to have learned about this initiative being co-ordinated and driven by a Traditional Authority and a private sector member”. |
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