BIG Pilot Project - Assessment Report - BIG Coalition Namibia

Index of PhotographsPhoto 1: Plastic and corrugated zinc were the main building materialsin Otjivero (April 2007).............................................................20Photo 2: The BIG as a right............................................................21Photo 3: N$ 100 - making a difference...........................................22Photo 4: BIG payout through NamPost savings accounts...............23Photo 5: Dr. Hage Geingob, the first to donate to the BIG Pilot ProjectFund.......................................................................................24Photo 6: Ms. Emilia Garises, 55, mother of 7 children, head ofhousehold. (Before the BIG)...........................................................26Photo 7: Desperation before the BIG..............................................27Photo 8: Before BIG.......................................................................28Photo 9: Housing before BIG..........................................................29Photo 10: Emilia Garises - making dresses with material she boughtfrom the BIG..................................................................................32Photo 11: Otjivero-Omitara elected its own BIG Committee...........38Photo 12: Sister Mbangu of the government clinic.........................57Photo 13: Johannes Goagoseb in prison, November 2007..............60Photo 14: Parents of Johannes Goagoseb (Nov 2007).....................61Photo 15: Johannes Goagoseb - reunited with his family (July 2008)......................................................................................................62Photo 16: The Primary School in Otjivero.......................................64Photo 17: The school's reports show a 90% payment rate of schoolfees after the introduction of the BIG.............................................66Photo 18: Proud to be at school.....................................................67Photo 19: Enrolment at the crèche increased from 13 to 52 after BIG......................................................................................................68III