I was born in a small village in northern Namibia, Southern Africa and grew up without access to books.

My early career has been in the tourism sector, where I worked for nearly 15 years and achieved a senior management position. With the birth of our son, I took the decision to become a stay home mom and start to engage in something different.

Namibia is a very unequal society, and I always had the desire to do my part in improving the lives of the less fortunate, especially children. In 2019 I initiated an Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme for ‘Development Workshop Namibia’ (DWN) , called ‘Play for All’, with a focus on supporting kindergartens in informal settlements.

I started by preparing and distributing metal boxes filled with donated children’s books to kindergartens, spending time reading to the children, and sensitizing the kindergarten teachers about the importance of reading to young children.

Through my involvement in early childhood development programs and my own childhood experiences, I became inspired to write children’s books.