GIRLS JUST WANNA CHANGE THE WORLD F
rustration at seeing the most vulnerable in need is what drove Jasmine-Rose Goagoses to start a project to assist when she was just twenty-four years old. Today her charity, Namkid, runs collections and distributes food, blankets and more to those living in poverty. In 2020, she is focused on changing the lives of ten people living in Khorixas by building simple iron-sheet houses with cement floors. And in-between all of this, Jasmine-Rose is employed as a community care worker for Project Hope, an organisation that focuses on vulnerable young women who are HIV positive or at the risk of becoming HIV positive. 99FM’s MYD Heart spoke to Jasmine-Rose to find out more about the charity, and why such a young Namibian feels it is her responsibility to help those in need.
“Namkid started as ‘Make a Difference’. I used to run it alone but in 2015 my friends and I came together to work on it.” This is how Jasmine-Rose explains the project’s beginnings. “We are thankful for our privileges, but there is an imbalance if one side of life is in torment and the other in
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