Children in the slums

The children of Namibia's poor are as colorful and open as their parents, but - as you will see in some of my stories - they tend to be neglected and under stimulated. Especially this struck me after my stay with the Himba, who give their children endless love and affection.

Children of
the rainbow

Children playing
with tires

Nursery rhymes

Sunset in
Ovamboland

Blue boy with toy

Bedtime in the slums

Girl carry sister
in sunset

Girl with her sister

Girl in Oshakati

Mother playing with
her two children

Boys on tires
in sunset

Black girl in
a white world

Motherly love

Urban child locked
up in the country

Grandmothers -
Namibia's real mothers

Boy in yellow shirt

Bedtime in a
Katutura shack

Children with
white dolls

Girl in front of
her pink shack

My Donna

Soon to be orphan

Orphan

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