This summer, a group of Venturers and Rovers from the Montreal area will be embarking on a Brotherhood Fund community development project in the Southern African country of Namibia. Our goal is to improve facilities at several nursery schools in the area of Okahandja, about 70 kilometres north of the capital city of Windhoek. None of these schools receive government funding despite the huge influx of AIDS orphans swelling the numbers of children in the classroom. Many of these schools are in a state of serious disrepair and lack even the most basic sanitation facilities.

            Fortunately, the materials for international development projects such as this one come from the Canadian Brotherhood Fund. However each participant on the project must raise their travel, accommodation and food expenses, in addition to those of Namibian Scouts working with the group. In order to raise the approximately $100,000 needed for the trip, the group has been seeking private and corporate sponsorship and undertaking several fundraising events.

            One fundraiser is the sale of T-shirts. Anyone wishing to support the Namibia Project either by buying a T-shirt (S-3XL), or by making a donation, should contact Alison Bentley at 450-458-8076, by e-mail at alison.bentley@sympatico.ca. 

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