I LOVE Namibia!

If I could properly express to you all how much I love this country, it would be through the newspaper articles I've read over the past 20 months of my service. I've decided to start a collection of "best of" articles for my personal entertainment, and now yours!

Below is an edited version of a Namibian Newspaper article about how NamWater donated computers to a rural school. The punchline is highlighted....enjoy!
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IT was a day of great joy for the learners and teachers of a rural school in the Tsandi area of northern Namibia when they received twelve computers as a donation from NamWater, a state-owned company, last Friday.

NamWater usually refurbishes its older, but still functional computers for schools when buying new hardware for the company.

This time it identified the Tsandi Junior Secondary School as recipient of the dozen PCs.

"We only had one single computer at the school, which was used by the secretary," said its headmaster, David Shipombo.

"That computer was stolen in January this year, when thieves broke into the administration building.

Only this month did we scrape enough money together to buy a new one for the secretary," he added.

The well-behaved and neatly dressed learners gathered under a tree in the school yard and sang beautifully as a welcome and showed their traditional dancing skills, but informed the NamWater officials in a special song about the development needs of their school.

"We need a fax machine, printer and more school furniture," they sang.

"We are overjoyed with this donation and not only the boys but the girls will be able to become computer literate."