The Albert Einstein high school in berlin is twinned with the hog again. Ball of high school in the namibian capital vint hook. Namibian students was supposed to now be in berlin on exchange. But the coven pandemic forced them to cancel Virtual Meetings and words of encouragement are all thats left well as you unfortunately ill, although it has been very, very difficult over the past few months with school, with free time, with all the things that you couldnt do about us, we can now see how quickly its progressing, how quickly you can get vaccinated if you know how well youre cared, a medically ally to how many people help you here it does a so much in the media in window, come up at our partner school. This is sometimes missing. Thank hes much, they dont have adequate medical care. Ill fighting them. It is, you know, she has often let the supervise travel wasnt possible in 2020. The Namibian Group was supposed to visit us in berlin when it became possible. Again, if we had high hopes until recently, and now everything has crash, doggie, i. Rachel meetings can bring us closer, but they know substitute for a real meeting kind of underwent, shall feel, hug again. Bob hi is a prestigious institution. And one of the largest schools in namibia it students have an Exchange Program with its german partner school, which includes regular visits between vint, hook and berlin. But the trips have been cancelled for almost 2 years due to the pandemic. Ah, even face to face learning is in jeopardy. Southern africa has been overwhelmed by the new omicron variant. The latest Student Exchange trip has also been cancelled. Unfortunate. The Educational Value of tuning schools is precisely this personal experience of a foreign culture. Oh, the physical interaction or they do because nobody though it would go to come. Yeah, oh ah, let nozzle go of it with their teachers. And then the incorrect they stay with one another just to lend culture and all of these. But this was not was disrupted, the schools have been twinned for more than 12 years. And the African Partner students were to be on a flight to germany. Instead, theyve been locked down for months, remote learning. So oh only and did you, did you feel sometimes oh, i wouldnt understand. Well, it goes, you can ask the teacher, follow up, meetings will not, what reason me, do i am the worker . So its always been, you just had been n unplugged it ah, well my name byron and im just coming to school in the living is life time. Gosh, somebody was anything ah, seeing with 15 year old circa leaves very close to the school with her mother, aunt and 2 sisters. But zuka seldom has the place to herself. I hate to stay at home was 6 months at how long the lockdown was in with 5 people give basically 4 home schooling out, come tomato, men do my work like far from the tv or just on my bed doing my lik, sometimes it would switch off in the middle of my class, or sometimes it aint in a door, i could low down and then you make just have to wait until it works. Again. Jessica has her own room, which is not very common in cut to tura. Its been hooked poorest district. Her family had to scrape together money for online classes. Some day my sister or mother would sacrifice and give me money for the day because i mean its schoolwork it, sir the stairs. So they sacrifice, even if they wanted to buy, like, you know, a t shirt may be, theyll sacrifice it for me and give me the money to buy data. So youll need an date there. Youll need a smartphone. Youll need a like quiet place that that may be everyone can get in, but mostly date they like every week because it only last for 7 days. Hm. How much is it . Its 60. 00 per month. Yeah. 60. 00 bill week. Ah, thats the equivalent of 3 euros 60 for remote lessons. This may not seem much to germans, but its beyond the reach of many namibian emanuel, who, like soccer, should be visiting berlin now. Also lives in cut a tura, but on the outskirts he has a half hour walk to school. He shares a room in this corrugated iron hunt with his sister. Ah, yes. Okay, this is the advantage of family. Nice. Thank him. I, marsha, desiree della bed was like my leg explain this why study come to my rooms. Um awesome. Okay. And mrs. Gonzalez with jar bounced back the, you know, move. They made the site and ill just say yes, i woke sandwich, touch one with unless i one of vint hooks lodge symmetries lines. Just a few kilometers outside the city. Its saturday, the day funerals are traditionally held in many african countries. And oh, we filmed off to large gatherings of moon is an important part of namibian culture. Were again being allowed. Every one attends the extended Family Friends of the deceased. All the neighbors looked down regulations here was similar to those in europe and almost everywhere else. Even singing was forbidden and passed as often stood at the grave with just 5 or 6 close relatives. Rosa that theyre back there, hoster lorenz could said she can minister in germany for a number of years. And theres you know and hung up. Hes now been pastor in cut a tura for about a decade. Noble know . Im a boy. Yep. Were good. Im and the members of his parish were particularly hard hit by the severe covered wave that struck namibia in 2021. 0, thats good. I mean, google july of boost swamps is ainsworth from the end of may through june, july and august to 2021. We buried somebody every day buys vaguely, shred it. It was really hard for me to stay that we held a Memorial Service on september 25th for all the people we buried. Yep. Oh good fear. There were about 82 names. Opt, 100 leave. Yeah. Index a site. There were funerals ever day and sunday. Im going happen by october 2021 less than 5 percent of the namibian population had been vaccinated. There was not enough vaccine to go around. Besides, many people were afraid of the job. In the past, i do speak to math and im going to go and the vaccinate me myself, fully vaccinated. And im really living when and i dont have any problem, especially my was the afternoon, the neighbor and i didnt sure there was no, no problem at all. So i think the nation can be done that we have to all of the Media Publications that i really mean and, but any problems for people not. Good afternoon, wild conspiracy theories about cove it and the vaccines have also impacted and, and maybe a summer begins here. In november. The pandemic had eased a little and professional soccer matches, restarted, even spectators were allowed. Nobody could know that the own the crone variant was already on the march, and the vaccination rate was disturbingly low. The. We have a lot of boxes being produce as you know, over 6000000000. Those have been ministered. However, most of dos that have been, ive been listed in the rich countries, and most of the poor countries, and particularly in the african region, have less than 5 percent of the populations who have received the vaccine. Namibia has a land mass, almost twice the size of germany, with the scattered population of 2 and a half 1000000 people. Reaching every one for vaccination is not easy. The World Health Organizations kovacs program is helping rich countries of being asked to donate the vaccine, which the w. H. O, then distributes amongst the most remote areas of africa. That includes dreamy ups us some 300 kilometers from vint hook. But the w i chose representative in namibia discovered that the Vaccination Campaign was getting off to a slow start. People in this remote region had not been properly informed by 10 in the morning. Just 7 people had turned up to be vaccinated in goodness. Yeah, hang on, for instance, traveled more than 45 kilometers from the farm where she works. Her boss, a white farmer, sent her to be vaccinated in glenitia receives signer farm the chinese vaccine. It has not yet been approved in germany. The former Village School is the Vaccination Center for the next 2 weeks. The longer the center is open, the more people turn up for a job. It went away without the ah, the campaign. Let me say, i didnt say add p. Well each day had he bought over 2 weeks. If me love to come back again, manase elect a 100. The an average is slender. Are people, if you could always, if you buy them in the end some 1200 people in dreamy of this was vaccinated at least 400 of those receive a 2nd job. Oh, the others have to find a Vaccination Center in the next few weeks to receive their 2nd dose. Then they have to figure out how to get there. But most importantly, is there enough vaccine available . Ah, maybe the provincial capital go, bob is, has the only hospital with full medical can, but its inadequate for a population of 70000 talk to making because of h i v aids namibian zer, experienced with Infectious Diseases where we had the government pharmacist walks us through his vaccine storage in that office and so of if, if his daughter, oh, where we are giving all of our lessons at the moment were looking for but which is also missionary. Now that again, is that a good phone . Lets see at the phases and jamming j. B o available. Yay wise, info. Phone. We have that on the one of those is dependent full is when its flavor, right . So we have to the end of it as resident brown with live around 1000. 00. Its a lot, but not nearly enough. So the arrival of a plane in july 2021 with donations from gemini, as eagerly awaited the congo of mosques protective suits ventilate. As in vaccine doses east desperately needed so far, we received about a 150000 of us that come from the german government. And we believe that may be more will become in the German Health ministry, pledged more than 30000000 vaccine doses by christmas 2021 to the World Health Organizations kovacs program. We cannot see that the the promise that has been made is being fully implemented here. Because otherwise, we would not have the challenge of supplies. So supply is a major issue. And the, the need to provide enough vaccines for everyone because we need to understand that unless everyone is protected, nobody else. Oh, the Lutheran Church is one of the most active groups promoting coven vaccination in namibia. And its voice carries a lot of weight. The churches efforts can be seen in ot, whereon go a provincial town some 250 kilometers north of vint. Hook, the silent parish girls club is doing a corona demonstration monster handwashing, testing the 14 to 18 year old girls say no one should be afraid of being vaccinated. Ah he tango, i see. Story is tragic, but not uncommon in the media. Her mother died of coven 19 in may last year. She had wanted to be vaccinated, but there was little chance at the time. The girl struggles to tell her painful story, but its important for the audience to hear it. Her mothers death to covered through the whole family into crisis. A 18 year old kid tango now takes care of her 3 siblings. She earns what money she can buy, making clothes, which she sells in the neighborhood. Also, oh hey mrs. K, i y a y b e n o n. I know me so what happens is like that you say b a thank you and she may be Something Else in the state that i know that i love young. We are yes to change. So i have myself a fire. Jade and its my house and my mom and i believe he is your daughter of one of the members. No one there that the this goes gap with me must had mean me herself in peace. So we also, the 2 of us went to germany through as a teacher by profession that she lost her life or this year you took of it. So now they are siblings or for was their father. Now in our girls club i think the afford to 5 girls that glossed their parents. Yeah. To duke of it. And then most of them are staying with the current parents. If we, if freckles from the club, it also was the remaining only was the grand remaining elder, the grandmother, it also bassett assembly. So our goals are really affected by discovering. We are still trying to yard them. Whos them . Ah, to day the girls club is hosting 3 visitors from partner parishes in vessel in germanys rule valley. The pandemic has made visits like this one extremely rare. The girls club is an offshoot of this is made a lutheran womens project partnerships between lutheran parishes in germany and namibia have existed for almost 40 years. Ah, the stories of grief and bereavement are remarkably similar in both countries. O fiedler composition, which for up she didnt want. Many of them werent able to say good bye. These last close relatives and are still severely traumatized, couldnt but keep it to themselves, pressure, they cant talk about it right now, and theyll certainly be a lot. Theyll have to work through on the few charity. Its not my role hallman viet, a dad in shoals, his son is properly dressed for his confirmation. More than 60 young people are due to be confirmed to day. But then the alarming news emerges from south africa anew. Apparently even more infectious, cova variant has been identified. Omicron or we back to square one. Ah, be faithful, my sons come comes out. You really wanna be faithful. My door does come comes out. Will it be wonderful . Yeah, theres a lot youre god will hold you in his holy hand. Young me beans like teenagers, everywhere are enthusiastic uses of social media. Pastor john is afraid theyll be hoodwinked by conspiracy theories circulating on the internet. And be discouraged from getting vaccinated is curry to mercy on the social media. On whats up on facebook was huge, it was big in italy, it is many bill was in a sort of them. And now ill be bill. The messages i was sitting around was leg dont, did this medicaid in, you will die after 3 months . Dont dig this medicine or the telephone or there was to, well, are busy. I attribute our ass away from the blood net that they want to take over our country. And it is only discouraging message. And thats why the people away in fear. Again, there are parallels to the situation in germany. But in the parish hostile, a kind of boarding school where children can stay when their families live on farms far away from the schools. The german visitors encounter a chilling consequence of the pandemic that german children dont have to face hunger. Nickina. This is where the children live are taken care of. They go to school, get 4 meals a day and can do their homework. Its of no maam, thats their normal life. And i thought that everything has collapsed due to corona, the hostels were closed. Like and even now not all children can be taken back night because physical distance has to be observed. So many children are at home where they dont get regular meals for. So its typical for families of 6 or 7 people to live on. One persons income has fish, and if thats gone, the biggest problem comes hunger. If the children go to school, they get something to eat there. The question of whether they should also get vaccinated seems of secondary importance right now. A group from the girls club tries to tackle the hunger problem in the slums of o. Chew our own go. When they get donations, they buy food in bulk. Then the young women distributed, providing a few dozen families with the essentials. Some of the donations come from germany, an elderly woman lives in these corrugated iron hot with her 2 daughters and their children. Her husband has died. The childrens fathers live elsewhere, hasnt her the one right to have the grandmother calls all 6 grand children together. She sees it as her responsibility to take care of them, all of it with his co who have to as exempt on the i got them deal with like a know people to a daughter explains that the family has only 800. 00 namibian dollars a month to live on about 48. 00 euro. The pension money is 1300. 00. But because of the low, nancy dieter diaz, big 5 years, vic, shes only getting 800 in that way they do their living. This was always my dream to come and help all kinds of people. And finally, im doing it for the 1st time, and its very, im very happy to be doing this to be helping out people all the way i king very fit the fear such family going through a difficult time in i. So this corona for gods grief Edward Gaming gabled hope, go bless the Lutheran Church in namibia preaches, but also works to alleviate economic hardship. During the pandemic, its promoting vaccinations only about 14 percent of namibia, 2 and a half 1000000 citizens have been vaccinated. Once there is a need for vaccine to reach more people, there are some people who certainly is changing their minds to go for the vaccines. And if days enough vaccination thing, i think that will be helpful. Funerals continue. The numbers of infected are falling significantly. Some experts say omicron leads to less severe illness, and many may have been unknowingly infected veil count is recovered in early february, but vaccinations still provide the best protection. Ah, [000 00 00;00] ah, ah, ah, ah, with ah, ah eco africa. 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