Empowering the Needy in Namibia - p.3

Windhoek, Namibia

Brick production is another avenue that is helping to better the Babilon community. “With a simple and effective brick machine, communities in the most remote areas will soon be able to manufacture quality bricks,” explains Franz. To date, more than 20,000 bricks have been sold, a great business opportunity for the residents.

The impact that the Mullers are making has been reciprocated. “We have had to learn that change and development of people takes time,” Franz explains. “A daily challenge has been training pre-school teachers from the community and changing worldviews and values.” Finances are another.

But despite these challenges, highlights do come. “When a building is completed, when prayers are answered, when individuals get established in the Lord, hearing a first sermon preached by one of them, when children leave school for grade one able to speak English and comprehend the basics for school, when work is generated for the community,” Franz elaborates.

 

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