Lüderitz Soccer Academy

Luderitz soccer academy is a soccer development program which will strive to develop the soccer skills of both boys and girls in the u/11, u/13, u/15 and u/17 age groups. It will be open and available to the whole community of Luderitz.
Currently there are no sports development programmes for children in the town of Luderitz. [...]

Served At Sea Breeze

As with to Ritzi’s Restaurant one of the most stunning things about the Sea Breeze Café is its location; looking out over the waterfront and harbour the glass fronted café provides a beautiful view of blue seas, blue skies and a distant horizon of golden sand dunes making it a nice place to spend a [...]

Youth Centre Movie Night

On Friday 27th February the YACC held its first ever movie night, designed to provide visual entertainment for Lüderitz Youth.
Although first set up by Peace Corps Volunteers Padraic Gerety and Jacob Saur the film night is now being run by an intuitive group of High School kids who are eager to create a way [...]

Soup’s Up!

One of Lüderitz’s local soup kitchens is serving a record number of people in an effort to help the poor and vulnerable members of the community.
The Elago Group Soup Kitchen has recently been catering for over 200 people, a record number for an organisation which is run by only four people. The kitchen, held [...]

SPCA

People Foods to Avoid Feeding Your Pets
Chocolate, Macadamia nuts …these foods may sound delicious to you, but are actually quite dangerous to our animal companions.
Chocolate, Coffee, Caffeine: These products all contain substances called methylxanthines, which are found in cacao seeds, the fruit of the plant used to make coffee and in the nuts of [...]

Men 4 Change Camps Out

Men 4 Change is the mens group of the Lüderitz Secondary School. It is a group initiated by the school in cooperation with Paidric Gerety, Peace Corps Volunteer, to provide a safe environment where questions can be asked, discussion can be held, problems discussed and a place where you can just have fun with other [...]

Namibia Celebrates Its Nineteenth Birthday

The 21st of March: 19 years ago today Sam Nujoma was sworn in as Namibia’s first president of the free state by UN Secretary-General Pérez de Cuellar. The new country was full of hope and the promise of reconciliation. It is now 2009 and Namibia is in its 19th year of freedom from colonisation. How [...]

Youth Lead The Way

Written by Padraic Gerety
From 4 – 6 March, a three day Leadership Workshop was held at the Luderitz Youth Centre by the Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture (MYNSSC) in a drive to impart leadership skills to Luderitz’s secondary school learners.
Training was given to 20 prefects from the Luderitz Christian and Luderitz [...]

YACC Receives DSTV

The Luderitz Youth Centre’s newly renovated container office, or “Youth Room,” has received a significant upgrade through the donation of a DSTV plan by Marco Fishing co. on 4 March 2009. The company’s HR Representative, Otto Shipanga, handed over the plan to Jan Scholtz, Acting Head of Centre, as a sign of the [...]

Youth Participation In Democratic Governance

By Reverend Jan Scholtz

From my point of view the role of youth in a democracy is to be evaluators of all systems, be it political, economic or otherwise. In order to do this, the youth must be morally upright, possessing correct reasoning and acceptable behaviour. Youths who are integral part of a democratic society need [...]