Restoration Community Development Organization (RECODEO) is a community-based organization focusing on social and economic problems facing society but with a bias to addressing issues of gender and the status of children in the impoverished neighborhoods of Katutura.

The organization which was championed by a church, recently acquired a building in Katutura (Old Cinema Hall along Independence Avenue) to start rendering services to its clients such as physically, sexually and emotionally abused women and children displace due to violence and instability in families.

This children end up living in the streets and engaging in commercial sex and committing crimes.

The philosophy of the organization is premised in not only counseling the clients but giving appropriate skills and capacity for them to break away from the trap of dependency.

We have discovered that most women who remain in abusive relationships do so partially because they have nothing to fall back on – majority is unemployed and have children to support. Often the man/friend or husband perpetually committing the abuse is the sole breadwinners of the family and hence the wife is dependent on the relation to meet basic needs.

This is why there is a need to create platforms that can take care of these clients and train the women in various skills such as craft making, sewing and tailoring and provide some kind of assistance to kick start their business operations.

For the youth/ Children we are planning to provide relevant programs such as training in carpentry, theatre production, music and computer literacy. We are also looking at setting up a resource centre for school children to do their research and prepare their homework under some supervision and supportive environment.

Plans are underway to investigate ways of setting up a kindergarten/pre-school to cater for children in the surrounding particularly orphans and vulnerable children.