WELCOME TO THE AGDS NAMIBIA
The AGDS is committed to preserving, maintaining, and promoting the German language and culture within a multilingual and multicultural Namibia. To this end, we specifically support the institutions that are part of the association.
To this end, we finance and organise:
- Bursaries
- Educational Conferences
- Language support in families
- Further education and training
Greeting by the Chairperson: Sonja Pack
“We stand for the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Schulvereine in Namibia” or the AGDS for short. In order to strengthen the German language in schools, we promote German as a mother tongue already in kindergarten.
Since language is an expression and carrier of culture, we finance projects such as the reading competition, the cultural festival and the essay competition; we offer German teachers scholarships and teacher conferences. We support educators and primary school teachers with further training courses that are geared towards promoting children’s language skills.”
Why German?
The mother tongue remains part of personal identity, the language opens up social and cultural integration. A multilingual identity is to be maintained and developed. Multilingualism in its transculturality implies intercultural competence, which is to be promoted and used for active participation in Namibia’s social development.
AGDS EXECUTIVES
Back row, from left to right:
Sonja Bartlewski, Dr. Gerda Wittmann, Kai-Uwe Schonecke
Front row, from left to right:
Carola Hornickel, Sonja Pack (Chairperson), Sylvia Schlettwein, Karola Redecker
Would you like to support the AGDS?
To ensure the German Language and culture is maintained in Namibia the AGDS relies on funds by its members and also donations by supporters.