Kindergardens and drinking water

As Eco-Lodge we live in close relationship with the local community. We see where help is needed the most. With our development poject MEYU we focus on pre-school education and clean water supply. 

Pre-school education is super important in Namibia, but without proper buildings and water supply it’s almost not possible to maintain the education all year round.

Meyu means water

The goal of MEYU is to build in every village a kindergarden and to drill a borehole for the water supply. So far 2 villages got lucky. It’s a good start. The projects are funded by the lodge Riverdance, our friends back home in Switzerland and our guests. 

We depend on your generosity

When we had almost no revenues in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid we set up a project on the crowdfunding platform wemakeit and thus were able to continue our development work. Over 500’000 N$ were donated! With this money we built another kindergarden and started the expensive drillings to search for good ground water.

Now after the times of covid the financing of our development work depends again on the success of the lodge and the generosity of our guests.

Please help :

In Switzerland:

Project MEYU

Urs Christian Haefeli

UBS

8910 Affoltern a.A.

IBAN: CH910023523563023241X

In Namibia:

Project MEYU

Urs Christian Haefeli

Ned Bank Namibia

Rundu Branch

Branch Code: 461078

Account No. 11990194272

SWIFT: NEDSNANX


 
 
 

We made it again in 2022!

The second kindergarden was built quite quickly, but the much needed water supply was difficult to achieve. Finally after expensive drilling, we found drinking water 1 km away at a depth of 70 meters. Lucky us! There is an abundance of water.

Clean water for 2000 people

Now we have not only water for the new kindergarden, but five widely spread water stations supply now up to 2,000 people from Rhudiva and Shadipuera and the local school!

4,000 L       Output of solar pump per hour

3,000 m      Trenches for the water pipes

30,000 L     Capacity of water tanks

This 2nd MEYU project was only possible with the generous support of the RIVERDANCE friends. Further water and education projects are already planned. The demand is huge as our region belongs to the poorest of Namibia. Please keep helping us

 

Natumera – Thank you very much!