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For the first time this year the annual report is available online! Please, have a look at all the activities we undertook in 2009, check what participants and audiences have to say about our reach and learn more about OYO.
During 2009, OYO continued with some of its core activities, such as the OYO, young, latest and cool magazine (with a record print run of over 23 000 copies for the issue on teenage pregnancy, abortion and adoption), regional tours with youth group members and the OYO festival. It also embarked on a theatre project, We were young, that was presented to over 23 800 people, and two international exchanges with its dance troupe (one with Faster-than-light company from Berlin and one with Fuzzylogic from the UK). The Walls and words project continued in Khorixas, the Kunene Xchange Programme, a new initiative with the Regional HIV/AIDS Coordinating Committee (RACOC) and Medicos del Mundo (MdM), was initiated, and the photographic exhibition Still life was presented in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and the UK.
Those are just some of the highlight. We would like to take this chance to thank all our sponsors and partners who have made 2009’s achievements possible. OYO received financial support for its activities in 2009 from:
- the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (HIVOS); and
- the MHSS, through the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
OYO also received grants from:
- the French Service for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs;
- the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands;
- the United Nations Population Fund;
- Personele Samenwerking Ontwikkelingslanden;
- The Namibian Planned Parenthood Association (MHSS/Global Fund);
- Medicos del Mundo; and
- Valentine Charitable Trust.
OYO also received support, either financial or in-kind, from:
- the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to Namibia (support to the OYO magazine);
- P.art.ners (support to the dance exchange programme with Berlin youth);
- National Arts Council of Namibia (support to the project Walls and words);
- VSO (placement of one volunteer for fundraising in Windhoek);
- the FNCC (tour of the Still life photo project to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland);
- the City of Windhoek;
- Evelyne Talavera, Michele and Claude Peyrard, Lise Hue, Bernard Malary and Regis Marty, through their generous contributions;
- Zoie Golding and Nadia Iftkhar, by volunteering to come and train the OYO staff; and
- all the institutions OYO is partnering with, through their organisation of special events.
We would like to extend our thanks to:
- COTA Bank Windhoek Theatre School;
- Wieke Eringa and Rachel Bradbear for their continuing support;
- the City of Windhoek;
- the Windhoek disability centre;
- Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation, for supporting the regional tour to Caprivi;
- I-TECH for its interest in the OYO DVD Five minutes of pleasure and A crack in the wall;
- The MOE, in particular RACE in Kunene and Erongo Regions;
- the Regional AIDS Coordinating Committee, Erongo Region;
- the Regional AIDS Coordinating Committee, Kunene Region; and
- the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology in Swakopmund, the MOE in Khorixas and the Kunene Regional Council in Opuwo, for providing OYO with office space.
Finally, our thanks are also due to all the volunteers and youths who have, in one way or another, contributed to our projects. |
