Nanso and NSFAF reach agreement

Shona NgavaThe Namibia National Students Organisation (Nanso) and Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (Nsfaf) have reached an agreement after Nanso leaders and university students staged a lock down protest last week at the Nsfaf headquarters in Windhoek.Nanso Secretary General for the Khomas Region, Shoki Kandjimi says the students last week decided to shut down the operations of Nsfaf through their lockdown because the institution had not paid learners institutions of higher learning their tuition fees and their non-tuition fees. He also stated that the institution had not given new loan holders their recommendation letters that would allow them to write their examinations. “Students will own have money for transport, accommodation and their daily needs. The awarding of letters will also see students to write their examinations without any hassles,” he says.The agreement between the two organisations will allow NSFAF to fork out N$100 million for non-tuition fees and an extra N$125 million for tuition fees. The organisations also agreed to speak to education institutions to allow students who owe them money to write their examinations. Award letters to some students and tuition and non-tuition fees will be sent to students and institutions of higher learning by 27 October 2017.Kandjimi says that Nsfaf agreement with Nanso is just a small victory for the students and that the organisation still plans on fighting for students rights. “The plan now is to fight for those students who fund for their studies themselves we also need to make things easy for them so that they can also afford to pay for their education. Education is a right and not a privilege. At Nanso it is our duty to assist and help students wherever we can,” he shares. He encouraged students who need to contact the Nanso offices so that they can be assisted. “The mandate of Nanso has always been to stand together with the students and to help them. If any of our students are having difficulties they should always know we are here to help them no matter what,” he says.The Namibia National Students Organisation (NANSO) was founded in July 1984 as a non-racial, democratic and independent student organisation. Since its formation, the organisation has been organising from the basic understanding that there is a need for students, together with other strata of our society, to make education respond to the needs of the country and its people.

Nanso and NSFAF reach agreement

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