Morgane, apprentice teacher (6 January – 28 June 2017)

« I also spent time at the library: for example, I set up with Namibian volunteers and Sacha, another volunteer of French origin, a project about the environment. The participating children took lessons and carried out research on different environmental issues.

Beyond my work in Otjiwarongo, I especially discovered a magical country, a warm people and smiling and endearing children. My daily life was full of discoveries, simplicity, exchanges. I take a lot out of it, both professionally and personally, and I come home with a heart filled with the smiles of Peri Naua’s children. »

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Sacha or the great quest for statistics (29 August 2016 – 28 March 2017)

« Apart from the help I provided throughout the schools and the library, I was in charge of two other assignments: the first was to compile statistics for the first year of the library opening. The second, where I had much more contact with people, was an investigation into the fate of former kindergarten students.

We work with the local population, we live with them. The difference teaches us so much. I come back delighted and filled with this humanity, and full of humility. It is these smiles, this happiness and this joie de vivre that people communicate, this sparkle in the eyes of children, their tenderness and their freedom that remain in my memory. I have often said that Namibia is a beautiful country, on every level. That’s what I meant by that, that its landscapes are a reflection of its people.

This experience was incredibly rich, and has given me so much, both professionally and on a human level, and has also helped me a lot personally. To be able to take a step back and distance with certain things and devote myself to oneself, and to its missions allowed me to find myself, to discover life, and even to find my way in working with children. . So I will start my studies in Educational Sciences with the aim of becoming a school teacher. »

Sacha Beck

Civic service mission 08/29/16 to 04/28/17

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Sylvain & our new project: a neighborhood library (September 2015- March 2016)

After the opening of the library, it is another adventure which begins! New Project, for the children as for us, we must think, we must redesign the organization, be present for the children, make them familiar with this new place. And that is where the adventure takes all its meaning. The links are created with the children, the discussions become possible and learning in is enormous. The children, these small toddlers without barriers, are open to us without complex, in a sincerity touching, and, with their words, between mumbo-jumbo in English and with the universal language of hands, we learn to discover their life, their goals, their dreams. Ujakwa who wants to become a doctor in Canada, Hedwig who wants, as her mother, become a teacher in order to help her community, or Brown, who, in the image of his idol Barack Obama, wants to become president (nothing as that!). As many names, faces, dreams that I will not forget! These young people filled with hopes for their future remind us that, despite the material poverty in which they live, nothing is played in advance. And if by our small means, we can help them to believe in their dreams, then so much the better.
Because Peri Naua  is also this: by the school and the library, give them the possibility of a quality education, help them to grow, to improve in the learning in reading, in order to have the best possible chance for the future, in an environment where  access to knowledge is a luxury that is sometimes difficult to offer themselves.

This experience, these meetings have been for me a source of deep enrichment. It is impossible to explain to what extent these children, this community, have brought to me and I sincerely hope that I have been able, from the top of my weak means to give them, this would be only a tenth of what I have received!

I could still talk about my personal project of the creation of a book with the children, who has allowed me to meet with key individuals in the community, of discussions with the local volunteers or the teachers about the school, about their country, their future and hopes. But I think that it is an impossible mission to transcribe these moments in their original wealth and, by fear of not being able to describe them to their fair value, I will simply finish by Thank You!

Thank you to Peri Naua for having given me the fabulous opportunity to live this experience, thank you to Monique for having accompanied me in it, as well as for all the energy that she puts in Peri Naua, thank you to the community of the Township for their kindness, their smiles and their human warmth, thank you to the children of the school and of the Library for their simplicity and their open heart, thank you to the family home with which I have lived during these six months for having welcomed me as a brother and a son, and finally thank you to Namibia for its landscapes of dream  but especially for everything that it has brought me, even if I am sure that I will realize only in a few years how much it has brought to me. Thank you.”

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Anna, rhymes, and company (August-December 2015)

I’m not sure I brought many things to the 500 children that I met at the library that they could teach me.

If my three months here have served at least one child to discover a taste for reading, so my mission is fulfilled.

I return enriched with smiles, happiness, sharing, and full of hope for the future.”

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Jeanne: budding puppeteer (15 October 2013 – 15 June 2014)

Upon my arrival, the children have immediately adopted me. Voluntary, creative, and spontaneous, they have been a real driving for the step-by-step building of my project. Together, we have been working on a local story, manufacturing puppets, painting the sceneries, inventing the staging, and performing the show into a dozen school in the area. Each of the children have found his role and have known how to highlight it. Then, all of us (the teachers, the children and myself) had the opportunity to visit other pre-schools in the township. By comparing them to Peri Naua, we realized how our children were privileged, thanks to the educational material available, the quality of the teaching, but also thanks to the work of Monique Escurat on site and the dedication of the volunteers in France. It is this preliminary work that allows fifty children to go out of their difficult daily life and also that allows volunteers to live unique experiences. I keep only positive points from this year across the world, where the people are so simple and welcoming. Deep in myself, I know that I will always keep a space for Namibia and its warmth. Today, I would like to make of this experience, something very rich, both in human field and professionally.

Thousands of thanks for all.”

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Anne: from tourist to volunteer (July-August 2013)

Ihemba, Charliza, Betuel, Angela, Prince, Romanda, Eshuel and all the others, the Namibia of tomorrow is You. As a teacher, here in France, I would like to have learners like you, respectful and eager to learn, generous. Every morning, after having straddled my bike to swallow a few miles that separated me from the school, I have, as best as I could, helped the teachers already well trained by the work of several previous volunteers: refining the evaluations and progressions, proposing activities for children in need, providing new activities, such as writing a story, making a book… So, BRAVO Peri Naua, thousands of thanks to Monique Escurat, the head of the school and my host during those six weeks for her hospitality and her daily investment. Thank you to Peri Naua, that allowed me to live a unique experience, rich in encounters, humanity, sharing and discoveries!”

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