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=MYO (MONDESA YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES)=

About MYO
The MYO (Mondesa Youth Opportunities) is a non-profit organization/project in Swakopmund, Namibia that runs after school projects for disadvantaged school children in Mondesa a rural location in the town. It is a place where children go after school to complete their homework and get extra help with their school work, play around a bit, get athletics training, computer literacy classes and life skills lessons. It also offers formal classes for grades 4 to 8 and provides support for learners from grade 9 onwards after school. Some of the schools involved in this program are Namib High, West Side High, Swakopmund Secondary School,Atlantic Junior Secondary School and more. MYO is fully dependent on donations and welcomes donations of any kind.

When and why MYO was founded
The organization was founded in 2003 and registered officially as a Namibian trust in 2005. Their objectives are “to develop and foster an environment where children living in Mondesa and the DRC are provided opportunities to learn and grow in areas that are vital to their success”. MYO is there to help overcrowded and underfunded schools in Swakopmund to give the learners a better chance of becoming educated, emotionally healthy, committed and productive adults in life.

About Mondesa
Mondesa is the township home to approximately 25,000 people in Swakopmund, with most of them living in poverty. The location only has two primary schools namely, Vrede Rede Primary School and Festus !Gonteb. In addition to Mondesa another township community was established a few years ago, the DRC (Democratic Resettlement Community). This is where the poorest people in the town live as they have no other choice but to live in makeshift shacks in the cold of the coastal town because they cannot afford decent accommodation. The MYO caters for this community as well; they pick up the kids from there after school and take them to the center where they are also helped with school work and enjoy sports and other activities with the other children.