Future teaching assistants and caregivers, students from the Regional Training Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands, held a sponsor walk and sold snacks on our behalf, bracing the cold and wet weather. Thank you girls, you rock going an extra mile for the kids at Wake up!
The Halssila Daycare Centre in Finland of Ulla, a previous volunteer at Wake up!, surprised us with a Christmas present: they sent us a big box full of toys and stationery. Thank you to Ulla & colleagues for such great partnership!
During their Year End Celebration the Lions Club Windhoek Alte Feste presented Loes Bellaart, the present principal and initiator of the centre with a Melvin Jones Fellowship for dedicated humanitarian services. The Lions Club has been a true partner of the Wake up! Centre since 2013.
On Sunday 30th of November the New Apostolic Church handed over a cheque worth N$66,585.10 to close off the hall of the school from the elements, keeping sun, dust and wind out as to allow us to make better use of the hall. The church has been renting the hall since the beginning of 2013 for their church services on Sundays. The Pupkewitz Foundation will also sponsor part of this upgrade by donating certain materials. This will be a tremendous upgrade of our facility for which we are truly grateful.
Our end-of-year concert was a very joyful event. A Damara song by our toddlers, a stage act by the pre-school boys catching shower drops and the girls danced on Waikiki Beach. Then there was the graduation of 18 children leaving us for Grade 1 in stylish green and yellow gowns and hats donated by one of our parents. The evening was rounded off by fruit punch and snacks. Staff did a brilliant job! Now the school year is almost over.
