Survival park Omishe, Namibia Petra Hekkenberg and Linda Brunott designed and made a playground and survival park in Namibia. This was on a voluntary basis in service of the non governmental organisation Penduka, where Petra did her internship in 2010. There was a timeframe of two months for the two projects. Keywords were local people, local materials, recycle, learn+educate and of course PLAY!

This slideshow shows the survival park that was build in the remote village Omishe, The village can only be reached by 4x4 vehicle and has no electricity. The playground is presented in the previous project.

Omishe combined school The survival park is build for the combined school of Omishe and for children to play there after school. A part of the survival park is placed inside the fence of the school, a part is placed outside the fence. The school will use the playsets for their gym lessons. The schoolchildren are between 4 and 18 years old. The survival park makes use of the excisting trees in the surrounding.

Mountain Tire Made from car tires collected at local car mechanics and donated truck tires from Nexus Group. Nexus Group is a National Civic construction company that was working on the road at that time. They also donated and delivered two big concrete pipes where the children can crawl through.

Painting titles for the playsets The children thought of names for the individual playsets and painted them on car tires that stand next to the playset. Handy for the gym lessons.

Jack Tire Balancing on wobbly tires and tree trunks. The trees (dead) were choosen and chopped from the bush around Omishe. The posts are the stumps of dead trees that were already standing there.

Monkey No problem for the strong arms of Namibian youth!

Mushiki A seesaw to sit on or walk over.

Oshilondelo They never saw a playset like this, biggest challenge: make a loop around it!

Makili One of the three young workers from Omishe that we hired.

Super balance Who's next?

Interesting business Always interested in what is happening.

Teachers and workers On climbing tire, absolutely one of the favorites.

Giraffe A wall of tires for multiple use.

Brigde As simple as a few tires in the ground. Lots of fun and exercise.