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foreign
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and then my surname is genkos damara
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name
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what you don't know is that I have an
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Afrikaans middle name or nickname
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Oma
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so I say my tribe is namibian because I
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think everybody in here loves Namibia so
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I'll be your facilitator for today and
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my name is everything that I want to
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convey to you today it's the love of
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Namibia all her people all her languages
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we're just a rich country in that way so
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guadalupo
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Grand class
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dumela
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okay
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amore
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[Laughter]
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all right so I really love the theme
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that nmh has come up with that is that
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tourism really is for all we all have a
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part to play in tourism be it from the
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juicy succulent rib eye steak we're
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serving that leaves an impression with
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the tourists for me it really leaves a
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very important impression from the
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person we give directions to on
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Independence Avenue if we give it with a
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smile they'll remember that person when
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they get back to their homes
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um it's even the immigration officer
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who greets you as you are fumbling for
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your passport that can totally have an
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impact on how you feel about your
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namibian experience so the the theme is
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that we all have a role to play we all
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benefit from tourism and we can all make
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tourists the tourist experience in
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Namibia better yes
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good so this session will be very
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interactive I'm an interactive kind of
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person as mentioned before I'm the time
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keeper right and I'm also going to make
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sure that we stay engaged because we're
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learning from each other this morning
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but before I get started I hope we all
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know how to do the hello Namibia in here
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everybody knows the hello Namibia
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I tell my when I have friends visiting I
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teach it to them like this first say
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hello Namibia then turn it down
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thumb up for the Zambezi region and a
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little thumb tucked in there you go for
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the great omahico region
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all right so next we'll move on to our
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very first presenter
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um I think you're in for a super treat
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this morning it's Miss rivonia job she
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wants us to first run a
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quick
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quick video presentation
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and then she will be next at the podium
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all right
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no way okay
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what matters to one often has
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consequences for many what matters to
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communities has potential to make or
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break Nations what matters to a company
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affects people and what matters to those
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who have has impact on those who don't
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over the last 10 years the first rant
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Namibia Foundation has carefully
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invested over 85 million namibian
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dollars into doing what matters
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throughout Namibia working on behalf of
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FNB Namibia RMB West Bank ashburton and
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Point Break the foundation's continuous
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Investments Countrywide has meaningfully
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impacted the lives of over 1 million
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namibians
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driving systemic change in education
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delivering skills development providing
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Environmental Protection
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supporting health promotion and
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encouraging Sports and arts and culture
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is more than charity it's a reason to
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get up it's what makes us human and
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reminds us that companies meet people
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who believe in the same things
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every day the people of FNB RMB
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ashburton West Bank and Point Break work
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to make a positive difference daily in
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what we do in how we do it and in
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Sharing what we deliver with our
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communities the very Act of doing what
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matters inspires us to be more than a
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bank more than an investment house more
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than advisors delivering more than we
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believe to be possible daily
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from the neediest rural School support
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to Countrywide educational materials
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investment to inspiration for budding
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School journalists and to National panel
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debates on namibia's future to
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government disaster relief support in
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times of national crisis to celebrating
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talent and protecting local Heritage to
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the delivering affordable housing
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Solutions and introducing Renewable
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Energy Solutions and green bonds what
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matters to us is doing the right thing
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[Music]
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good morning everyone thank you nangola
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for the introduction
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I think the sound is you can hear me
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okay good we really very grateful for
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this opportunity and I'm sure that the
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video gave you an overview of some of
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the other projects that I won't be
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covering here today so important for us
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today is to discuss our relationship
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within the within the tourism industry
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and how we play a role especially within
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our our
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environmental guardianship Focus area
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so just over the past eight years we
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spent
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thank you
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good there we go so over the past
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roughly eight years we spent 14 million
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within the space that I'm going to share
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with you today besides the 85 million
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that we've spent across our Focus areas
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which is education and financial
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literacy skills and capacity development
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community and health development
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education arts and culture and Sports
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Development
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so those are those are the the the six
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five Focus areas that I've mentioned
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um at this moment we're standing at 95
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when we produced the video we were at at
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85 million we roughly received 12
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million every year from our profit after
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tax for corporate social investment
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initiatives
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so moving into the environmental space
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I'm going to start right up the um in
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the Zambezi region interestingly enough
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yesterday we handed over funds to the
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prime minister's office the disaster
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relief management team 250
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000 to communities who are going to be
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moved from from their homes due to to to
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floods in the area again we were
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informed that five schools were closed
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as well so in this region we've worked
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very closely with conduana we partnered
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with conduana and with the sikhunga
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Conservancy initiative where we
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assisting the gods those guards are
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patrolling the river it's on the river
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the border with with the Zambezi
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um on the Zambezi River
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um we're trying to really assist the
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communities and assist the conservancies
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here because overfishing takes place in
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this in this area
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um to date we've arrested 14
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um
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um
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illegal fishing guys from the other side
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of the of the border so we involved here
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for more than three years a very
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successful program more than a thousand
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communities are also really benefiting
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from from this River on this side and
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look we have hippos we have crocodiles
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we have bird life and various fish
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species in the river so that's one of
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our projects in the
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Zambezi region where we're really making
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a difference and it contributes to
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tourism in the country
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moving over to the great kunene region
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um we involved there with the Namibia
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chamber of environment the ird and c and
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also with the safe that I know trust not
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just financially our employees do
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participate in the right for rhinos
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annual raise to also contribute towards
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to its funds that they need to patrol
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the areas we also support the aerial
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Patrol funds the fuel that is needed for
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the for the airplanes to patrol the
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areas with the
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irdnc especially in the Oppo area we
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involved with the elephants project
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because we know that the human Wildlife
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conflict is a various see is a very
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serious issue in in the country we
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support with the water tanks we provide
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information education on how to
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communities to co-exist with with the
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wildlife we also assist with
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a coloring of the of the Lions assist
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with early warning signs for the
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communities to to be aware so yeah this
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is the great kunene and a very
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successful feedback also received there
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in terms of these success with animal
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wildlife and human Wildlife conflict
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there
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the desert lie and initiative
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um you will you see the vehicle there in
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the corner that vehicle it belongs to Mr
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Phillips standard phillips that is
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Phillips satellite office so what we
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have done there
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um we assist with panel beating for the
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vehicle because the vehicle was very old
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the maintenance of the vehicle because
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he has to assist the communities also
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with early warning signs um caller the
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the Lions assist with the research with
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the desert lines there as well and we
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we've also assisted in the region
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and the communities who lost their
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Kettle due to to the drought not only
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drought but also due to to the Lions
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every kid Foundation a very beautiful
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story here is where you see the woman
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they standing at the the animal
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protection crawls that they constructed
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to protect them from
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from the Lions also with the early
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warning signs
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um all contributing to to tourism and
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making sure that we co-exist with these
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Wildcats in the Osos on jupa region
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the wild horses I don't know how many
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people know the story of the Wild Horses
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of the current region
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we assisted with especially during the
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droughts in the South we assisted with
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co-feeding once again with conduana in
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this region and it's a very
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the wild horses a very popular
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attraction I think when most tourists
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visit Namibia they they really want to
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see the Wild Horses of the South we know
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that it's crayfish Festival this weekend
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and the road is going to be busy and I
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hope that some people will see some wild
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horses see so this is just in a nutshell
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what we have done to contribute towards
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towards tourism in the country assisting
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communities
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um and and saving their livelihoods
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which ultimately ultimately then
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contributes to the economic better
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economic status of our country so that
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is our short presentation and I'll take
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questions if there are any
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very impressive
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don't think most of us
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in four different regions of the country
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to really promote Environmental
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Protection Community Development
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they're doing their part
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I wanted to ask a more personal question
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and that was
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as the the CSI manager oh thank you very
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much
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how do you feel
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your own personality like your own moral
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compass or just in general like when you
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go to work each and every day the
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passion that's required to do the work
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you do or is it rewarding for you just
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give us a little bit about rivonia's
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take on the work she does throughout the
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country I think she's passionate about
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it
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um thank you nangola I am very
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passionate um to the extent that I
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decided to not attend my graduation
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today I was going to to graduate this
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morning at night with my masters in
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marketing and I am very passionate about
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the foundation's work my thesis was
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based on the impact of early childhood
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development in education and based on
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one of our projects that we co-sponsor
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with nmh the almost meerkat initiative
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and to me it's not always about funding
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about the financial assistance it's
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about capacity building it's about
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Partnerships it's even not about not
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wanting to co-brand with a competitor
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because together we can make a
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meaningful difference especially when we
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don't have enough funds so I'm very
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passionate i surf on three trusts
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the omnike trust the Mali trust and the
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African leadership trust as well
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volunteer and volunteer cases and I'm a
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patron of the school so I'm very
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passionate about Community work and I do
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believe in collaboration and and working
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together for us to make a meaningful
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difference in this beautiful country
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that we live in
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um I love that and it's evident I I've
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only met you a few times and I already
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knew that this one is a true patriot
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are there any questions in the audience
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for rivonia
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so it was a loaded statement that we
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started with the foundations
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um so anytime I'm going to put up my
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hand for the next two days but but we
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want to illustrate how far we took this
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relationship working with so we've as an
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emerged we have a long-term relationship
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with first round on various platforms on
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various
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events and we've been involved with
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education as nmh now for the for the
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last four years actively in terms of not
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just writing about it but being part of
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the solution
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um and what you need to understand is
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when you hold a piece of paper you have
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a challenge it's called Logistics
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and how this wonderful partnership
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worked with this is how we would be able
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to work with first round with a
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foundation help them with funding so
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that we can reach communities in our
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country we've distributed over 15
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million books in Namibia in the last
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three years to every corner of the
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country and where where where Lodgers
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have played a significant role in
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helping us so it's not just about saving
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the Rhino or saving the line or
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empowering the communities but literally
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making sure that the communities in
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nature and the small children are
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receiving their booklets and the most
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difficult area to reach was the Zambezi
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region and it's still the most difficult
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why we couldn't annual give us a go as
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well but because of the water and the
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flooding and we went and we we sat down
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with the wetlands Association in Zambezi
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and we'll directly deliver all our books
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to them and then through their network
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of lodges they deliver to every single
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um community that they live in they know
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their communities better than anybody
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like you all would say as well you know
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your community is better and that's one
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of the areas that we would like to do
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more and it's not about our education
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program it's just a network of working
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together on sometimes not just saving
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the Rhino but the communities ultimately
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tourism is about people ultimately it is
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about making that difference so first
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round has done a lot more than just what
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they're showing you um so it's been it's
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been an exponential benefit education
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tool and yes she's right and we won't
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mention other corporates here because
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we're trying to be protective but first
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round did not say listen sorry but I
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only work with myself we work with other
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corporates competitive Brands as well
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which is wow and that's a togetherness
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that nangula spent earlier this morning
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as well as in country how do we work
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together without
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um being selfish this distribution
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Network that we're using is our next
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distribution Network as nmh but it's not
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it's in a movement distribution Network
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as well we're equal Partners in that so
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we went to namibian and said how do we
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work together and we we compare the
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brands in the country when he gets to
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newspapers but even after the newspaper
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industry said how do we find common
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ground and all what we do and I think
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that's the challenge to us today and if
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there's something that we can talk in
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coffee times
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how can we work with first round we the
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other foundations
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um I know I won't mention names here but
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other unions here as well so and said
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with this first word but there's a lot
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more that we can do and how do we work
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together
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the The Lodges have an unbelievable
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benefit that nobody else has and that
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they know the community is the best in
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this country
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even better than many governments
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officials and that is the power that we
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must unlock more and that's the power
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we're going to say how do we find things
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I know one thing and that is that lodges
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travel every week
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to The Lodges they have no so Logistics
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is the heart of our country's challenge
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we travel 11 000 kilometers every day to
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deliver newspapers yet that's most
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probably a quarter what needs to be
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traveled
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and how do we find a way to work with
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you is my invitation to you today and
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I've broken the rule now because I've
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spoken wrong in two minutes
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listen
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thank you
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it was important though
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good morning uh passionate uh
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personal ladies business people my name
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is Joe
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um over the years I I was actually based
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in kundine and then I really see that we
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should walk more to bring Pride meaning
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that um when we look at disastrous
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management and climate change they need
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to do a lot more there because we have
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traveled the fires and people really
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suffer that side we also see that um
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that when it comes to education the
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teachers are really also suffering that
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because they don't have a proper
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accommodation and sanitary
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so they cannot go out to anything you
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know it doesn't make them very proud and
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thus being the pride out of the work
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then we have the tourism we have the
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community that lives around the
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conservancies and around The Lodges but
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in the south of housing these people are
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the houses are made out of stick mats
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and during this difficult time of
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climate change these people are really
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suffering because it's they live in what
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you call it in an environment that is
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very dangerous it can be attacked by
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insects snakes and what what but now I
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want to come to the path where first
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round
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when you knock a doors you really don't
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want to actually want the money you just
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want to have maybe like for instance
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like every event where you just want
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people to be trained by Red Cross on
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basic things like first aid how do you
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protect your community when there's a
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disaster just for response early
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response or for the teachers don't just
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know about simple mathematics bringing
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one of the old teachers out and say okay
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I'll bring you all to up and then they
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know how to make meth enjoyable to those
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kids and then comes the other part and
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we have also have the small minus these
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guys are really
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they are Breadwinners for their families
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but they also want them you also want
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them to empower Empower them there is
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there is institutions that really goes
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out there but they focus on learning
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certain areas
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don't benefit from this but when you
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knock at the door
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or if only a person is
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do you give money to individuals
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People Like Us they just want the second
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and give me at least that 50 Cent so I
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can do ABC and then give you a report
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back to say that that's what I have done
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with these people is this possible
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thank you
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um thank you Joe
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I'm not going to go into detail I think
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the networking time would allow for that
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so I'll share more info on the on the
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projects because we did we traveled to
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kunene last year beginning of Feb
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um we visited the ecd centers that we
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co-funding with nmh
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um our policy does not allow us to to
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support individuals because where do you
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draw the line but you can share your
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ideas with me I can surely direct you to
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to organizations maybe put you in touch
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with organizations for them to see how
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they can assist with with funding that
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we have given them it all depends on
00:22:30
what idea you have and what you what you
00:22:33
want to do so I'm more than than willing
00:22:36
to share the information during during
00:22:38
our time education you mentioned is also
00:22:41
very important
00:22:43
and we'll have the conversation but we
00:22:46
did we do support
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um the little ones with stationary and
00:22:50
uniform in the region as well but I'll
00:22:53
share more detail afterwards but most
00:22:55
definitely no individuals because
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um with such a big country with so many
00:23:01
people so we have to be consistent with
00:23:03
our dealings so we only assist the
00:23:06
schools the registered ngos and and so
00:23:09
forth
00:23:12
thank you are there any other questions
00:23:25
yeah good morning
00:23:26
my name is Eric veruso I work at the EU
00:23:30
delegation
00:23:32
and it's not too I made a part of being
00:23:36
here I was this morning at Nast actually
00:23:38
for the graduation ceremony
00:23:41
so I could have picked up your diploma I
00:23:43
guess
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and the other thing is that your your
00:23:48
understand that your your diplomacy
00:23:51
about early childhood development and
00:23:53
this is what you are
00:23:55
is after you know we have been
00:23:57
supporting early childhood education
00:24:00
for quite a while and today we have a
00:24:02
new budget support in this area
00:24:05
we can talk about it after but I made
00:24:09
the point of being here because
00:24:12
main main priority for us is Outreach to
00:24:17
the post uh population most vulnerable
00:24:20
groups and for that we have some funding
00:24:24
of course but we need to network with
00:24:28
with foundations and private sector like
00:24:30
yours and we would like that the
00:24:33
ministry of gender and education
00:24:36
take the the the responsibility of that
00:24:38
so we are right now we are we signed a
00:24:43
financing agreement with the government
00:24:44
and now we are setting up some technical
00:24:47
assistance office and precisely to
00:24:50
facilitate coordination and synergies
00:24:52
with Foundation
00:24:55
csos
00:24:57
private sector Etc so it'd be uh
00:25:01
interesting that we maybe we can catch
00:25:05
up later after the meeting and continue
00:25:08
our discussion thank you
00:25:18
any other questions
00:25:21
for Miss job before she
00:25:23
closes out
00:25:32
hello good morning and thank you for
00:25:34
sharing your story
00:25:38
my name is Austin I'm a volunteer here
00:25:41
from America working with the oyatu
00:25:43
project
00:25:44
and
00:25:46
I'm very impressed by all the work that
00:25:49
you're trust is doing
00:25:51
my question is
00:25:55
running a business and running a
00:25:59
foundation
00:26:00
are very different skill sets
00:26:03
how do you view your role as a a leader
00:26:07
in Namibia
00:26:09
helping
00:26:10
other foundations and trusts be more
00:26:14
effective or more impactful
00:26:18
think maybe you have a thought on that
00:26:26
thank you um Austin for the question
00:26:28
I'll make a very practical example when
00:26:30
we do receive applications although it
00:26:34
sometimes Falls with outside of our
00:26:36
scope of work
00:26:38
I recently had a meeting with an
00:26:41
organization they want to to set up
00:26:45
a building in soccermund for um
00:26:48
differently abled children
00:26:51
and we don't support construction work
00:26:53
besides the low-cost Housing Initiative
00:26:56
through the shek Dwellers Federation of
00:26:58
Namibia but I set up a meeting with a
00:27:00
gentleman I requested him to bring a
00:27:03
detailed breakdown of his expenses say
00:27:06
if the project was going to be 14
00:27:07
million just the breakdown of the of of
00:27:10
of of of the funds and then with a bit
00:27:12
of background and then I linked him with
00:27:16
other partners like the orango cement
00:27:20
the book of its foundation and the beta
00:27:23
Golds that we have very good
00:27:24
relationships with and I also provided
00:27:27
guidance in terms of
00:27:29
to be specific when you are looking for
00:27:32
building material don't ask pupkovitz
00:27:34
for furniture be very specific and ask
00:27:37
to privilege to to address a certain
00:27:40
light to support a certain line item in
00:27:43
the budget so that's when we refer to
00:27:45
capacity building so we just don't
00:27:47
decline we assist in various ways where
00:27:50
possible if we have to attend meetings
00:27:52
with these organizations we also do so
00:27:55
so I hope it answers your question
00:28:00
we have plenty of time for more
00:28:03
questions
00:28:04
um
00:28:05
I'm just looking at the program are
00:28:08
there any other questions comments
00:28:10
maybe something to share
00:28:18
yes I just want to start about the
00:28:20
comments yeah it's good that we we speak
00:28:23
and we we
00:28:24
interact
00:28:26
but um when it comes to
00:28:28
to our graduates is there space for them
00:28:31
you know we find out that after you
00:28:33
graduate there's no jobs you have that
00:28:36
big problem nowadays we also find out
00:28:39
that certain areas
00:28:42
especially in rural areas is a network
00:28:45
problem
00:28:46
and that is a concern for safety for our
00:28:49
tourists because they really come to to
00:28:52
see our beautiful animals and so and so
00:28:54
but there's no network for instance when
00:28:57
there's a accident
00:28:59
because of the bad roads that we also
00:29:01
have in our rural rural areas these
00:29:05
people cannot communicate to say now
00:29:07
this is about to happen and so and so do
00:29:10
you also support big public problem
00:29:12
projects like that and now we are also
00:29:15
going to call it renewable
00:29:17
and solar and those in that space
00:29:23
are you also a part of that space
00:29:31
um thank you um Joe um I think the MTC
00:29:34
questions will leave to
00:29:37
um to MTC and maybe in Angola can give
00:29:39
some guidance on how she will address
00:29:40
those we do have the graduates program
00:29:43
at at first rent where we take in 20
00:29:48
25 graduates
00:29:50
on a yearly basis we for a year we give
00:29:55
them at least salary so at least doing
00:29:58
our part although we can't give them
00:30:00
permanent employment it helps with
00:30:03
skills development and and just for them
00:30:05
to gain the experience to make it
00:30:08
possible for them to to be more
00:30:10
employable the following year so we do
00:30:14
understand that we have a very high
00:30:16
unemployment rate in the country and I
00:30:18
think it's a collaborative
00:30:21
meter that has to be addressed by
00:30:23
everybody the economy is not doing so
00:30:27
well at the moment so it's something
00:30:29
that we will be experiencing for the for
00:30:32
for many more years to come in terms of
00:30:35
renewable energy yes we do have products
00:30:38
within and FNB so I can engage with you
00:30:44
afterwards that just to see information
00:30:46
with the Department who can assist you
00:30:49
or specific person that I can refer you
00:30:51
to in terms of if you have any other
00:30:53
ideas for renewable energy projects and
00:30:56
what we're doing in that space But I
00:30:58
know that we definitely involved there
00:31:02
thank you and then your other question
00:31:04
for
00:31:05
MTC we have to okay
00:31:09
needs a lot of development so you're
00:31:12
absolutely right
00:31:14
um I'll just pass that along as well
00:31:19
any other questions
00:31:26
uh good morning everyone thank you
00:31:29
rivonia for the presentation not really
00:31:31
a question I think it's just a comment
00:31:33
on
00:31:35
um collaboration with foundations
00:31:37
private sector and the communities
00:31:41
um because what I'm from the African
00:31:42
Child Development trust and what we
00:31:44
realized is
00:31:46
we don't always know the extent of the
00:31:48
need in the communities because we're
00:31:49
not there and I think we're the tourism
00:31:53
industry Lodges of um the foundations in
00:31:56
the communities can come
00:31:58
in collaboration with foundations
00:32:01
doing the work and private sector
00:32:03
finding the work is just to highlight
00:32:06
the extent of the needs highlight where
00:32:08
the schools need books where teachers
00:32:11
need training whatever their need is
00:32:14
so I think it's really important that
00:32:16
The Lodges assist with with letting us
00:32:19
know listen we have these schools these
00:32:21
teachers these children that need this
00:32:23
assistance uniforms
00:32:25
um so that we know we can get there and
00:32:28
then from there um
00:32:30
to help The Lodgers can help us again to
00:32:32
get closer to the schools closer to the
00:32:34
children closer to the communities So
00:32:36
yeah thank you
00:32:42
thank you and I think more and more
00:32:44
that's exactly what our tourists finding
00:32:47
and the ability to see how we can impact
00:32:49
the communities surrounding The Lodges
00:32:51
that they're enjoying their Sundowners
00:32:54
and they want to make sure like how do
00:32:57
we make sure our dollars spent money
00:32:59
spent at the lodge will benefit the
00:33:01
surrounding community so
00:33:03
perfect
00:33:05
um any other questions
00:33:18
good morning everyone
00:33:20
I'm chakawa from Zimbabwe
00:33:22
in the case of employment I was
00:33:24
suggesting or is just increasing I heard
00:33:28
you were saying you are employing about
00:33:30
25 graduates each year
00:33:33
yes it is sustainable for your
00:33:35
foundation like to equip these graduates
00:33:38
with life skills that will help them in
00:33:40
the future
00:33:41
than just employing them giving them a
00:33:44
one-month salary
00:33:54
thank you for the question the graduates
00:33:56
are employed by first rent so it's not
00:33:58
from our foundation's budget at all so
00:34:01
it's 25 we take them through the
00:34:03
business for one year and then this year
00:34:05
we'll be taking in another 25. so it's
00:34:08
not from our foundation's budget it's
00:34:10
it's definitely not sustainable to to a
00:34:12
system from the foundation's budget
00:34:19
any other questions maybe oh
00:34:29
youth employment which will be the next
00:34:31
session will be critical but but youth
00:34:34
employment is is key in our country if
00:34:36
we do not address that the stability
00:34:39
that we have as a country is is on a
00:34:41
time-taking bomb so so so so employing
00:34:44
individuals and empowering them and on a
00:34:47
year basis or in our case a three-year
00:34:49
basis we employ 10 people and making
00:34:53
sure that they grow in their careers and
00:34:55
move forward and ironically many of them
00:34:58
stay behind anyway because jobs do get
00:35:00
great and once you have certain levels
00:35:01
of experience you carry on I'm not
00:35:04
trying to say where these 25 graduates
00:35:06
stay at FNB because I'm not in that
00:35:08
detail but what I can tell you is that
00:35:10
the show that we're recording right now
00:35:12
will be on network television which is
00:35:16
run 95
00:35:17
by individuals that are younger than 25
00:35:21
years old which will all go through our
00:35:23
development program
00:35:25
they are running an entire television
00:35:27
channel that's the power of the youth in
00:35:29
this country
00:35:31
and so I'm very very proud of how we've
00:35:33
been able to use Youth and empowering
00:35:35
them and I think we sometimes get locked
00:35:37
up yes but this year what they're going
00:35:38
to do afterwards
00:35:40
I promise you that life is sorted
00:35:42
because they have this experience this
00:35:44
is the biggest challenge we have in our
00:35:46
country is just giving the youth that
00:35:48
experience the energy they have the
00:35:50
willingness they have but they need a
00:35:52
bit of experience and this is where
00:35:54
corporate Namibia including ourselves
00:35:55
because we also fail sometimes we're not
00:35:58
coming to the table enough
00:36:00
so we have 35 000 individuals every year
00:36:02
that we need to accommodate and if we do
00:36:05
the maths you realize that 25 past 10 is
00:36:08
not quite adding up yet and that's the
00:36:10
challenge yet when you unlock that value
00:36:12
you create a whole new industry like
00:36:14
we've created with network television
00:36:15
and it creates a whole new world and a
00:36:17
no whole new economy no one at nmh lost
00:36:20
their job because we employed these
00:36:22
individuals we do able to create a whole
00:36:25
new world and I and I think that is the
00:36:28
message we'll talk about that in Youth
00:36:29
and tourism just now as well but as
00:36:32
corporate numbers we need to take that
00:36:33
first step and yes you're right Madam it
00:36:36
has to be sustainable otherwise this
00:36:38
process will not work
00:36:40
maybe we can break for coffee otherwise
00:36:42
I'm not going to get my first coffee
00:36:44
break
00:36:46
minute coffee break meaning we have five
00:36:49
more minutes left for a whole group
00:36:51
question
00:36:53
and then we can have a 15-minute coffee
00:36:55
break where there'll be more little
00:36:57
cluster discussions
00:36:59
um let me hear from someone else I know
00:37:00
you're passionate but yeah
00:37:07
yeah thank you Angela um my name is Fred
00:37:09
Foster I come from Montgomery Safari
00:37:11
camps
00:37:12
um we learn we run lodges we're in
00:37:14
tourism business
00:37:16
um and I can I can tell you there's
00:37:18
money available in the business to help
00:37:20
young people our problem is in the
00:37:23
communities
00:37:24
how do we reach out how do we do that
00:37:25
I'm I'm a lodge operator I'm not an
00:37:28
educator is there facilities and I'm not
00:37:30
talking government channels because
00:37:31
otherwise they would have worked are
00:37:33
there other facilities that we can reach
00:37:34
out to to say listen Okay this is the
00:37:36
money that we've raised through tourism
00:37:37
now we need to make sure that this gets
00:37:39
applied in our community you know in a
00:37:41
in a meaningful way
00:37:51
I think during covert
00:37:53
um you you must have noticed that we
00:37:55
formed a Consortium the vaccines for
00:37:58
Hope Consortium where we had
00:38:01
um the banks and private sector
00:38:04
contributions roughly around 11 million
00:38:07
that was put into this Bank deposited
00:38:10
into the bank account and we managed it
00:38:11
on behalf of of the partners so if this
00:38:14
is something that we that we should
00:38:17
consider and and discuss after this have
00:38:21
a discussion afterwards and for me to go
00:38:23
back to the bank and see how it's going
00:38:25
to work with our tourism Department we
00:38:29
can most definitely assist
00:38:31
um in terms of the needs that you that
00:38:34
you identified maybe some early
00:38:36
childhood development needs we have the
00:38:38
almost meerkat training initiative we we
00:38:42
provide the opportunities to Farm
00:38:45
Workers children and and training to the
00:38:48
parents actually to start a small
00:38:51
kindergarten in that settlement or area
00:38:54
to prepare the kids for for grade one so
00:38:57
there are opportunities and we're more
00:38:59
than willing to have the conversation
00:39:02
that model should be replicated
00:39:04
throughout all our regions and different
00:39:06
area lodges one more question and then
00:39:09
we go for a coffee break
00:39:16
um just a bit two minutes all right good
00:39:21
morning everybody I'm just a bit sorry
00:39:24
uh
00:39:25
um
00:39:26
nice to see you here I'm a bit late but
00:39:29
I managed to get here my name is Alex
00:39:32
surname is batokawa
00:39:35
I am from the small institution called
00:39:39
Prosperity Hotel School
00:39:41
I'm the funding manager
00:39:43
and um
00:39:45
today I came along with one of the
00:39:47
training can you step forward
00:39:49
this is more introduction
00:39:52
okay thank you
00:39:54
okay we said we said
00:39:57
nothing about us without us
00:40:01
so that's why I brought her in she's one
00:40:03
of the trainees one of the foundation
00:40:06
that really been helping young people
00:40:09
from the street into the industry and
00:40:12
for employment opportunity so my
00:40:15
initiative initiative started in 2007.
00:40:18
I've been working for
00:40:21
collarisons for about eight years
00:40:24
but because of my background I decided
00:40:26
to learn how difficult is for young
00:40:29
people to snap jobs
00:40:31
so with my experience I decided to give
00:40:33
it back to my community so that's why I
00:40:35
started this project
00:40:36
so now it has become a big institution
00:40:39
now the name is called Prosperity
00:40:41
vocational training center
00:40:43
we are approved by NTA we're offering
00:40:46
level two and we're trying to upgrade to
00:40:49
level three
00:40:50
so I would like to keep it short uh what
00:40:54
one of the initiatives that we've also
00:40:55
added to the school was to engage in the
00:40:58
program called dial a waiter
00:41:01
where
00:41:02
yes
00:41:03
where we
00:41:05
speak to different friend organizers
00:41:08
lodges hotels and so forth to assist in
00:41:13
terms of our train development that's
00:41:16
also including job attachment on job
00:41:19
training all these job opportunities and
00:41:21
so forth so um just also to add on the
00:41:25
last event that we recently have since
00:41:28
Monday
00:41:29
yesterday and today we also been saving
00:41:32
first trainees at a
00:41:36
uh well in this conference that is a
00:41:39
trump boss okay now I'm also on my way
00:41:42
to the State House to go save the
00:41:45
president of the Finland with the
00:41:48
trainees so one thing that I also
00:41:50
believe in what I'm doing is that
00:41:52
young people when they feel grade 10
00:41:55
they feel like everything is cut off so
00:41:58
I've turned that into something
00:42:00
different you know one of the key
00:42:02
requirements of my institution that no
00:42:04
qualification needs it
00:42:06
no discrimination
00:42:09
no qualification needed yes no
00:42:12
discrimination no age restricted
00:42:16
so I look at the potential of the talent
00:42:19
of the skills can you able to cook
00:42:22
can you do housekeeping
00:42:24
can you able to answer the phone
00:42:26
properly
00:42:27
you can able to prepare a drinks and
00:42:30
safe
00:42:31
so those are the things that I look and
00:42:33
did so once I identify them I put them
00:42:35
on the preaching course
00:42:36
if they pass the division course they
00:42:38
move to level two and then level three
00:42:41
with original centers they can decide
00:42:43
now they want to master in cooking or
00:42:46
whatsoever but the program is doing very
00:42:48
very good so nice meeting the bankers
00:42:51
here and expertise
00:42:53
um I mean graduate from the street
00:42:55
especially I'm working with my hands and
00:42:58
I really want
00:43:00
um to get more information from you guys
00:43:02
thank you very much great
00:43:04
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00:43:09
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thank you
