Digital Literacy/Use for Namibia's Unemployed

Quarterly Report

MSR’s Digital Literacy/Use for Namibia’s Unemployed

May 2025

MSR’s (formerly “The Men on the Side of the Road”) “Digital Literacy/Use for Namibia’s Unemployed” Project http://goto.gg/68419 is off to a great start with $64,300 (70%) of our $90,000 goal raised in our first quarter. With these funds:

• We have purchased 30 computers, 26 desktop PC’s and 4 staff computers.
• We have secured additional computer lab space with new leases in Walvis Bay and Windhoek.
• The computers are being installed, and we will share more pictures/impact in our next report.
• We have initiated the hiring of additional staff members to teach computer literacy to our unemployed members and provide daily assistance to our members with their free internet and computer use to search for and gain employment or become successful entrepreneurs.
• We are averaging 25 visits a day to our offices by members getting free computer use to help them secure sustainable economic sufficiency.
• We worked with visiting USA volunteers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute to prepare our first MSR interactive online workshop on Basic Living Skills and Financial Literacy. https://sites.google.com/view/msrtraining/home
• We have initiated proposed partnerships with the Namibian College of Open Learning (“NAMCOL”) and the Namibia University of Science and Technology (“NUST”) to co-develop a curriculum of online training and workshops to assist our unemployed members to gain employment or economic self-sufficiency.
• With these online programs we hope to expand our services throughout all of Namibia.
• We have initiated an update of MSR’s webpage with a Namibian based web design firm.

This MSR Project aligns with Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s number one priority to address Namibia’s unemployment issue (Namibia is No. 1 in the world with the highest unemployment). The President recently announced free primary, secondary, college and tertiary education to help alleviate future unemployment of Namibia’s youth.

We again thank are donors for their support of this Project to help Namibia’s poor and destitute unemployed find employment or economic self-sufficiency so they can house and feed their families.