ONGWEDIVA – The North Committee of the Namibia Basketball Federation (NBF) has founded a programme providing education and basketball training to children from schools in Ongwediva since March this year.
The programme is called Oshana Basketball School. Committee chairperson Pondo Nailenge in an interview with Nampa at Ongwediva on Monday said 15 children from local schools receive training. The schools include Charles Anderson Combined School (CS), Liberty Private School, Ongwediva Control CS and Hashiyana CS.
“Besides giving them basketball training, we also provide them with after school classes in English, mathematics and life skills,” Nailenge explained.
He added that the aim is to mould future basketballers and to ensure that programme participants emerge as the best learners academically at their respective schools.
The programme is supported by Allgemeine Sport Club (ASC), with two German volunteers, Lovisa Plaisir and Kilian Stahlhut, from Gottingen in Germany.
“The volunteers are here until next year to help us train our children academically and in the game of basketball,” Nailenge noted.
He at the same time appealed to companies to financially and materially support the programme, as it currently depends entirely on a monthly contribution of N$60 parents contribute for each child participating.
“Interested children in Ongwediva and from the sister town of Oshakati are so many, but we are unable to take more children in the absence of sufficient resources,” said Nailenge.
Erundu CS, Oshakati West Primary School and Cabatana Private School are the Oshakati-based schools that will be added once resources become available.
The programme intends to train children in three categories – Rookies (Grade 5-7), Junior (Grade 8-10) and Senior (Grade 11-12). -Nampa
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