Empty Desks Need Action
When a young person stops coming to school, an empty desk may be the only visible sign of a much larger struggle. The register records an absence. The teacher notices the chair. But that absence may carry the weight of a household without enough income, a long journey to class, or responsibilities that no child should have to manage alone. The child is not a blank space. That young person still has a future. The Namibian reported in August that 650 pupils in the Kavango West region had left school during the first semester of the academic year. Education officials