About Conni ...

Cornelia Reimann. was born on April 26, 1964 in Ratingen, Germany. 

After the college and a first experience as a gymnastics teacher, she decides to work for the police as an officer, where she has the opportunity to be trained as 'business administrator' in the high school of Frankfurt-am-Main.

After several holidays spent in Namibia, they decide, together with her husband Peter to change completely their life...

They both left their jobs in Germany and acquire in September 2002 a farm in Grootfontein.

At that time, their dream was to create a campsite, a bed & breakfast facility and to develop a private farm.

Some of the workers in the farm ask for the permission to build a location on part of their ground, which they accept immediately.

Very soon she realizes the extreme conditions in which some families and children are living.

A lot of children are starving and do not have any opportunity to escape from their difficult life. She sees them running around the whole day without doing any thing constructive. A school would be luxury for them.

It was impossible for her not to react !

At the beginning they imagine with Peter maybe to create a school.

In March 2004, she hears through a neighbour about the Shamalindi Primary school. There was a government school, close to their farm. And they didn't know it !

When she visits the school, she is warmly welcomed by the Principle and the teachers. She is the first person, since the creation of the school, to be interested by those disadvantaged kids and families.

At that time, there were 2 classes and 40 kids in the school. This was the ideal place to send all the little one's coming from the location...even when they had some km to walk every day...

Even though, the school doesn't have enough means and the students doesn't follow the courses on a regular basis. On top the kindergarten is abandonned. A new dream was born : To set up an organisation able to take care of all the disadvantaged children of the region and able to supply education, food and medical assistance which is missing.

Even if the task seems as a high mountain to climb, she decides to go ahead in cooperation with the Principle, the teachers, the donors and the volunteers.

Today 180 children are coming every day to the school. They have some material, they receive food and are followed.

It is already a success but the top of the mountain has not been achieved, even if a long distance has already been covered.

Conni's dream is still ongoing...

The task is immense, however the good mood and the smiles of the children every day, give her the energy to continue !