Soon, our DHPS gymnasium will shine in a new look and become one of the most modern sports facilities in Namibia. The Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany supports the extension of the building with a financial contribution to the tune of 1.2 Million Euro (ca. 17 Million NAD). The important contract was signed by the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Namibia, Christian Schlaga, as well as representatives of the ”Deutscher Schulverein Windhoek (1949)” Niels Serrer and Conville Britz on 6 March 2017. The principal of the DHPS, Ms Kristin Eichholz was also present at the signing.

The new gymnasium is scheduled for inauguration in 2018, enabling us to be an excellent host for the next Sports Olympiad of the German schools in Southern Africa.

Ambassador Schlaga wished the DHPS success in the realization of the construction. With this commitment, the Federal Republic of Germany confirms its great interest in the positive development of Namibia´s only German School Abroad. It is the shared goal, that the school will be further able to increase its societal role as an integrated school of encounter in the interests of the Namibian society and German government.

He also congratulated the DHPS on winning Second Place at the “DAS – learning and living together” competition, which was held by the German Federal Office of Administration together with the Federal Foreign Office and chose the best German School Abroad in the category “Social Inclusion”. This success shows once more, that the school rightly carries the award of “Excellent German School Abroad” by the Federal Republic of Germany since 2011. This award to the school was recently confirmed by a federal state inspection.

Joint press release of the DHPS and the German Embassy in Windhoek