NaDEET to feature on well-known ARTE travel programme on 11 August 2010 at 7:30pm
Tune in to the ARTE channel in Europe to view this travel programme featuring eco-tourism in Namibia with a special focus on NaDEET. It will be re-broadcast at 2pm on 18 August 2010. The feature is also available on-line at: www.arte.tv

28July 2010

Biodiversity is Life- Biodiversity is Our Life
2010 is the UN International Year of Biodiversity. NaDEET has joined in these celebrations with the production of two new environmental literacy projects. Our most recent issue of the Bush Telegraph magazine focuses on biodiversity and its importance in the environment while our new It's Time to Identify, an identification booklet aimed for children, that will also intrigue adults new to the Namib Desert. Click on the images below to download.

Hands-on Learning for Community Groups
Temperatures may have dropped with the start of winter, but that didn’t stop Community Education Programme participants from working up a sweat as they hammered and sawed their own fuel-efficient stoves in the NaDEET Centre classroom. Made from recycled paint drums and wire, the stoves are a cheap and sustainable cooking technology—just one of the improvements to household energy use taught in NaDEET’s newest programme, “Mitigating Climate Change in Local Communities through Sustainable Living Education and Practices.”

We recently hosted 19 adults from Maltahöhe, the third community group from Southern Namibia to participate in the four-day practical training course.

“Hands-on learning is better,” remarked August Fredericks, one of our participants. “Seeing with your own eyes is the most powerful thing.”

At end of the programme, the group returned home with their self-made stoves, NaDEET’s guides: It’s Time to Solar Cook and It’s Time to Change, 10 parabolic solar cookers, one solar oven and the desire to create change. The 64-year old woman featured above now has the ability to cook for herself and seven grandchildren with her own solar cooker.

NaDEET will host two more community groups in 2010, all supported by the SGP-Global Environment Facility. This recent programme received additional sponsorship of four parabolic solar cookers for the Maltahöhe residents from our local NamibRand Conservation Foundation. We hope to expand this programme into 2011 and beyond.

If you would like to contribute to creating sustainable lifestyles in Namibia, make a donation today.

21 June 2010

Make a donation to NaDEET's work today!
Further renovation projects at NaDEET Centre have been halted until we have raised sufficient funds. Please help us to maintain our unique model of sustainable living for Namibian schoolchildren. We are looking for financial support for:
Underpriviledged schoolchildren:
One child for one weeklong programme: N$600 (€60, US$80)
Community Education Programme:
One group of 20 adults for a weeklong programme (including sustainable living equipment): N$37,500 (€4000, US$5000)
Reconstruction of Houses:
One house: N$30,000 (€3,000, US$4,000)
All six houses: N$180,000 (€18,000, US$24,000)