“For me, one of the mentor I met on this platform made a statement that actually grabbed my attention, which was ‘implementing my B while am at A.’ The idea brought me to be at peace with my today because most of what I am experiencing today is a result of what I implemented yesterday. So what I want in my B, I should work on getting in my A already!”
“I have this experience that People in my class, family and school always expect me to be perfect because of my personality and my good academic performance and when I make mistakes or hang out with some of my friends that look crazy or dress inappropriately, they tend to make these funny comments like ‘so you are also like that,’ ‘so you also do those things.’ They make unnecessary comments, to me, that takes up much of my time because I spend a lot of time thinking about these type of comment. Before I received cancelling form Namibia Online Counselling I use to be depressed and I always felt like I have a fake personality. What i understood form NOC is that its okay to make mistakes and people will misunderstand me, so I should remain true to my character and creativity. My mentor even said am creative and I should express my art in poems, paintings or Graphics design. I alove Graphic design!”
“To me Namibia Online Counselling website did not only help me overcome the fact that people at my School (Rocky Crest High School) think that am wired and that they think I can’t become famous. I really want to be famous because I think famous people have so much influence and I can use that influence to discourage things like school bulling, online bulling, roasting (A way of hurting peoples platform). So my counselor told me that if I want to be famous I can and that it’s possible. The other really nice thing about Namibia Counselling platform is that it updates me with news of productive societies like Muhoko @ NUST Society, news of events that take place at Tertiary institutions like Namibia University of Science and Technology. The fact that I can share my testimony… that makes me feel like I am helping someone out there”
“I am a herero and my school mates sometimes make fun of the way I sound when speaking English. This made me want to impress them so much and sometimes it leads to depression. What I understood from the counselling is that I am perfect the way I am. I have values and standards, to which I have to live up to. My counselor also advice me that what matters now is my education and progress in my academics.”
“As a student that struggled finding friends and sometime I get depressed being alone. Namibia Online Counselling became the perfect solution, whereby I didn’t only manage to get a mentor that advised me how to use my web development skills to get friends that are productive and like minded, but my mentor also became my friend and the Online Counselling really became a portal to interact with many other friends that teach me new things everyday.”
“My name is Ndinelago Penny Panduleni, female, age 15, I am a grade 9 learner at A Shipena, living in Havana. I always had a problem getting information to from the local newspapers about programs related to the youth, especially for females. We have TV and my father buys newspapers sometimes but the information there is sometimes“
“I was introduced to the Namibia Counselling Platform by my friend who is a student at NUST and he explained to me how it was gonna help me progress in life. When i first visited the site, it was very friendly and managed to get links for educational and job seeking purposes. i managed to enroll into Lingua training school through the link i got for this platform and now i also got a job i wake as waiter in a coffee shop. This platform enable me to reach out to professional counselors who managed to help me stop doing drugs and alcohol. Lastly i would like to that all those who made this website available especially to the Havana Community.“
