Momentum to the rescue

The Momentum Metropolitan Empowerment Trust is on a mission to provide for the Namibian community, and they show no sign of stopping. The Trust is a charitable organisation that was founded in 2002 and offers funding for community projects in Namibia.

The trust donated food parcels worth around N$70 000 to the Moses Garoeb constituency community in Havana on Saturday, 18 June. The recipients of the food parcels were identified by local community leaders.

The goal of the trust is to assist nonprofit groups and to help improve livelihoods and communities to succeed in the areas of education, medical care and job creation. “The philosophy is all about uplifting our communities in the areas of job creation, skills development, educational assistance, and poverty alleviation,” said project administrator of the trust, Ariah Mokomele.

On 16 June, the trust sponsored N$70 000 to fund the Clean Hands project. The project will collect and recycle used soap bars from hotels and lodges within Windhoek and surrounding areas and redistribute the recycled soap to 1 500 orphans and 500 disadvantaged kindergartens for hygiene awareness.

Mokomele said, “We aim to meet the needs of all members within the community in different ways; the youth who require access to educational facilities, the adults that need skills to generate other forms of income and the senior citizens that needs necessities to live.”