Photo: Nora Ndopu/Discovery Channel
Teachers and students receive blank tapes to
record educational programs from local cable
company.
“Thank you for making video
available to our school – it is
important that our children
experience such new things.”
– Namibian Parent
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Initiative
USAID supported Namibia’s government program
of building basic education system capacity, while
promoting community involvement in schools
through a public-private partnership with the
Discovery Channel Global Education Fund
(DCGEF) and MultiChoice, a Namibian satellite
television service provider. USAID helped
introduce educational video as a learning and
teaching tool at eighteen schools through learning
centers. Each center is equipped with a TV,
VCR, satellite, a set of twenty-four video tapes
with customized educational programming
produced by DCGEF, and print resource guides
for each video program.
Teachers are trained to maximize the use of
television and video as a supplement to the
formal curriculum. All project activities are
designed to meet the information needs of
children and adults. In addition to serving
teachers and students in the classroom, the
learning centers are used as venues where
parents and community members view programs
and attend workshops on HIV/AIDS, health,
micro-enterprise development, and other issues
of local interest.
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