Another Generous CAFO Donation
On the 17th of February, CAFO made yet another generous donation to the Orphans and Vulnerable Children of Luderitz. Revd. Jan Scholtz, the Chairperson of CAFO handed over 489 pairs of shoes to children from various primary schools all over Luderitz.
Revd. Scholtz had this to say about the organisation, “Our goal is to see all [...]
Cancer Association
Gardening can be quite an effort in Luderitz and flowers struggle to survive here. But I have had the pleasure of seeing a couple of flowers in bloom in town. Please bear with me as I don’t know all the names of the flowers and if I leave out any, well I hope [...]
Bible Handover
The Mount Zion United Church of Christ donated 70 bibles to the Luderitz Congregational Church during Stewardship Sunday on the 22nd of November.
The Mount Zion United Church of Christ is based in the state of
Pennsylvania in the United States and is headed by their Pastor, Dr.Larry Smith. Our two churches have twinned together for [...]
Groundbreaking Ceremony
The 26th of October was a very important date for the learners of Diaz Primary School. Not only did the school receive a generous donation of computers from Namport, but they also laid the foundations for a bakery that will serve the learners. The foundations for the bakery were donated by the Rotary Club and [...]
Vulnerable Children Receive Donations
On the 23rd of October, CAFO donated clothes and toiletries to the orphans and vulnerable children that benefit from the recently established, “Empowerment Centre for Vulnerable Children”. This organisation is the brainchild of Pastor Tony Mbunda. He set it up in February of this year with a team of seven people that run the Centre [...]
C.A.F.O Donate Foodstuffs To
Making a contribution to the orphans and vulnerable children of Luderitz this month, was the Church Alliance for Orphans. They handed over food during a presentation, the goods included jam, juice, rice, toothpaste, soup, roll-on, tea, coffee, cooking oil, macaroni, Vaseline, salt, sugar, top score, bread flour, sunlight soap and blankets.
All of this went to [...]
PINK DAY
Pink day was on the 16th of October 2009 to help raise breast cancer awareness within Namibia. Lots of pink things were sold to raise money for breast cancer, like key rings, t-shirts, badges and wristbands.
The event is to make women aware of the dangers of breast cancer and encourage them to learn how to [...]
BANDANA DAY
Bandana day is to raise awareness and money for cancer sufferers in Namibia. On the 25th of September people bought bandanas all over town and displayed them in all sorts of different ways- even on their dogs.
The theme for this year was pirates so many children from local schools dressed up as pirates to support [...]
CANCER ASSOCIATION NEWS
Reach for Recovery Namibia launched a satellite group in Katutura on 03-10-2009. The launch was attended by breast cancer survivors and patients undergoing treatment at present. October month is breast cancer awareness month and we thought that it would be a good idea to use this month as our platform to introduce Reach for Recovery [...]
Movember Campaign 2009
Have you heard of Movember? No????
Well let me tell you a little bit about it. The month formerly known as November has been changed. Movember is a moustache growing charity event, which supports awareness of men’s health issues, in particular prostate cancer.
At the start of the month clean shaven men register, and then have the [...]
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