The programmes below are offered to primary schools in Namibia.

Ourselves
Target age group: pre-primary and primary school
Geographical target: Khomas, Oshana, Caprivi, Ohangwena Regions
Number of participants: approximately 13,000 per year
Frequency: continuous
Description:
This is a programme for pre-scholars and grade ones. It teaches self-exploration and respect to others who form part of one’s community. JA Namibia spreads this programme over two grades: story time and small children. JA uses compelling stories about helping, working, earning, and saving along with hands-on activities to engage the learners.

Our Families
Target age group: pre-primary and primary school
Geographical target: Khomas, Oshana, Caprivi, Ohangwena Regions
Number of participants: approximately 11,000 per year
Frequency: continuous
Description:
Small children like to do things by themselves, but as children grow, they discover that our society and our economy depend on people working together. It all starts with the people with whom we live. JA volunteers use a combination of pictures, stickers, and flashcards to engage learners in activities about needs and wants, jobs, tools and skills, and interdependence.

JA Finance Park
Target age group: upper-primary school
Geographical target: Khomas
Number of participants: approximately 180 per year
Frequency: once per year
Description:
Taking learners into the world of business, JA Finance Park is a month-long economics education program that introduces personal financial planning and career exploration. It is designed to be taught to middle grade and high school learners by classroom teachers. At the culmination of this program, learners visit JA Finance Park to put into practice what they’ve learned about economic options and the principles of budgeting. Assisted by their teachers and a staff of trained volunteers, they have the opportunity to actually develop and commit to a personal budget.

Meerkat Job Shadowing
Target age group: upper-primary school and secondary school
Geographical target: Windhoek
Number of participants: approximately 100 per event
Frequency: twice per year (February and September)
Description:
Would you rather tell learners about the workplace or show them? JA introduces learners to careers through one-day, on-site orientations or through more extensive internships. Either way, it’s an authentic work-world experience for the learners enhanced with classroom preparatory and follow-up activities. Job Shadowing takes learners into the workplace to learn about careers.

Aflatoun Child Social and Financial Education
Aflatoun Fun Day August 2009
Target age group: upper-primary school
Geographical target: Khomas, Caprivi, Kavango; roll out planned to North-West regions and Erongo
Number of participants: approximately 35,000 per year
Frequency: continuous
Description:
The Aflatoun Programme consists of five core elements that encapsulate the Aflatoun concept of Child Social and Financial Education and guide the design and implementation of the Aflatoun Programme:
- Personal understanding and exploration
Children investigate their own personal values. Through exploration of citizenship ideas and ongoing interaction with peers, each choose the values that they feel are right for them. Financial ethics are explored and children learn the importance of balancing financial skills with the judgement to use these skills responsibly.
- Rights and responsibilities
Aflatoun is grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990), which identifies four sets of interdependent rights. Responsibilities go hand in hand with those rights and children learn about their responsibilities towards themselves, their family, the environment and their community.
- Saving and spending
Financial empowerment hinges not only on constructive personal value systems, but also on specific, practical skills. Children learn how to save and how to spend in a responsible manner.
- Planning and budgeting
Financial empowerment is achieved when children use their saving and spending skills to maximise their life choices. For example, a consistent savings habit can enable a child to stay in school for longer when payment for education is required.
- Running small-scale social and financial projects
Children are encouraged to view themselves as active participants in and shapers of their community. Through managing community activities or entrepreneurial enterprises children begin to see how they can have a positive impact on their community.

Aflatoun Environmental Dream
Target age group: primary school and secondary school
Geographical target: Khomas, Kunene
Number of participants: approximately 4,000 for the pilot project
Frequency: the project will run as a pilot in 2010 in four schools
Description:
This project will take place at 2 schools in the informal settlement of Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia and two schools in Opuwo in the northern Kunene Region. The project is a new cooperation between the Country Pilot Partnership, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Global Environmental Facility, United Nations Development Program; JA Namibia and Aflatoun.
Objectives are:
- To create awareness at the participating schools and communities and introduce the new concept of Aflatoun Environmental Dream.
- To facilitate training for the Aflatoun coordinating teachers to coordinate the project at their schools.
- To provide environmental education to learners related to climate change, land degradation, desertification, biodiversity, water management and integrated sustainable land management.
- To establish and manage a school garden in each of the participating schools.
- To promote entrepreneurship by exploiting the school garden as a business.