Global Changemakers

Fire-Hearts 200 is a CAP from Namibia started by Elsabe. Fire-Hearts stands for 200 young people whose hearts are on fire for their community and their people. The project want to inspire young people to launch their own community projects, to build up relationships between similar community programmes, to get a good database of each young activist and to assist them with skills, documents and experiences.

Here are the profiles of three hearts that are on fire for Fire-Hearts 200:

Heya.

My name is Absolomia Bruno Katumbo. I’m a matrica learner at Jan Jonker Afrikaner Senior School. I’m 17 years old, passionate and eager to be part of the change in tomorrow’s future.

My project is all about teaching kids the basics of using a computer. We all know that technology is so on, and if you cannot work it, you probably don’t have any future at all. Thus, teaching less-informed kids how to use computers becomes vital.

Africa, and especially Namibia, cannot afford a set-back because we are computer-paralized. I want to help kids who don’t have computers at home (This happens to be almost 83% of all kids in Namibia). I want to teach them how to manage this asset and use it for their own benefit.

See ya!

Bruno

Hallo! My name is Lineekela Nghitila and I am a 17-year-old Changemaker wanna-be.

My friend and I have decided to start a Combo. A combo will help in different aspects in Namibia. It acts in the environment, economy, poverty, health, homeless and many other fields.

We aim to address hunger, addiction, global warming, unemployment, and negative attitudes in our community. We are building a public garden in a secluded location in Windhoek. We are planting vegetables in this garden.

Different members of the community can ask a 2-2 meter spot in our garden where they plant vegetables for their own households. 10% of all yields are given to us, the owners. The vegetables will also be sold on a local market at the garden and 8% of the profit comes to us. With this profit money we can buy meat for the next project.

Once a garden is up-and-running, we will open a soup kitchen where wer invite desolate people to come for a meal. By serving our organic vegetables and the meat we buy, people get at least one healthy meal per day.

We then plan to work with the botanical institute and one of the other Changemakers that Elsabe told us about to help addicted people to experience nature in a peaceful way, this can serve as a gret rehabilitation method, since most people feel at peace in nature.

One last thing, at our garden, we will have three different bins, one for paper, one for glass and one for organic waste, since Namibia does not have a culture to recycle, we will be there to create awareness.

So, that’s me, the weed-pulling, crop cultivating, soup serving activist!

Lineekela