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'chief' Bobo endorses fund-raising effort

Transcription by Fridrick |Kunta, abridged by Candi Miller
My name is Tsamkxao ǂOma, the Chief of Juǀ'hoansi Traditional Authority. I am also a member of the Nyae Nyae Conservancy [in Namibia, Africa.]
            
So, Candi Miller [wants] to help us [by] selling these materials [books.] 
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You can feel free to [buy] these important materials because all [these] things that she made [e-books and audiobooks] will come back to us in future. You can buy these materials [books] in foreign countries like America or Germany.
            
These [books] are good and you will be able to buy them so that we get support for our schools and our children get a better living in future. 
 
Because Candi Miller [is] doing a good job; she's together with us and we [are] doing this very good thing to develop our schools. 
 
Thank you. ​
The head of the Ju|’hoansi Traditional Authority of Namibia, Tsamkxao ǂOma, known as 'Chief' Bobo, endorsing my fund-raising effort in his mother-tongue. 
Recording made in Tsumkwe, Namibia, February  2023.

Village feeding scheme delivers

I started this project in 2017 with  Bruce Parcher, a San community liaison officer,  when he pointed out that the school drop out rate related to a lack of food in the hostels. (Many children are weekly borders because they live far from the school.)
 
Since then, I've raised almost £10 000 for the Village Schools Feeding scheme  via appeals, book launches, dance events, and my newsletter. The money has  provided food, tents for teaching assistants, fuel for the head of the schools so he can make  his inspections.  None of this would have been possible without the support of  my various communities,  (friends, family, dancers, students, colleagues,  in the UK and abroad.) I am truly  grateful to you all. 
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Mi wi i, 'we thank you', as the Ju|'hoansi say.


​proud to be part of the JDF

The Feeding Scheme has been adopted by a larger charity,  the Ju|'hoansi Development Fund (JDF), which is focused on replacing the tattered tents and rusted shipping containers that served as classrooms,  with  purpose-built schools.  To date, two have been  built and they include hostels, kitchens and vegetable gardens. The JDF also purchases and delivers food to the schools.
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