 whatever you feel sleepy all you need is fresh water from the ground it's funny how people from the western world even think that Africans don't have water to drink we have water to even water our crops how much more than water to drink what I am is called kathitura and I know most of you enjoy our previous episode about kathitura you know what kathitura means right a place where no one wanna live which makes it the darkest history of the beautiful country Namibia wherever we find ourselves we are always trying to get a positive stories out of every situation we just wanna let you know that Africans are creative Africans are talented no matter how difficult the environment that they find themselves they prosper and this is why we are here today I am here to meet a young man who is making a difference in kathitura despite the challenges that they are facing in kathitura you know what I think I am a fan of kathitura I have mentioned kathitura, kathitura, kathitura but those days no one wanna hear the name kathitura you know what I am not gonna talk too much do me a favor like the video it's by first to like the video and hey we are already 800,000 family right here so subscribe and be part of what the one million followers by the end of August so yeah come with me let's go meet this amazing young man and he is definitely gonna share his story and I believe that his story will inspire you to be great also you know what don't complain too much wherever you find yourself just use the God giving talent that you have to make a difference it's your favorite village where Mr. Gaane baby come with me and come and enjoy this amazing episode kathitura wash your hands are you kidding me what be serious man so this is the soft water come on what man I have not even seen the guy but I have already seen the creativity in this house man yes hello hi yes yes sir nice to meet you nice to meet you too everyone is telling me that since I am in kathitura I need to rush to Havana just to meet you ok welcome brother thank you so much why is everybody telling me to meet you this is that Philip Shambhagala ok yeah I was born at Saudi region and I came in window so this is my place I am doing backyard gardening so I have few few things that maybe you would like to join me inside and you see by yourself backyard gardening inside your house yes yes yes oh ok yes is that an alarm yeah just welcome yeah it's an alarm but for now it's not working yeah it was working before but for now so we experienced some technical error ok yeah so Phil welcome thank you yeah how yes I look good in yeah so this is the place for that Philip Shambhagala this is your house yes this is my house oh ok yes your house everywhere you grow plants in here yes I don't I don't have space anymore because clubs are everywhere all over the whole place here were you born here so I'm not born here I came from Saudi region and what brought you to window I just have to come in window because life was not really easy for me so I don't have job and I have too many of my brothers and my sisters that I have to look after so I decide as a man just to come over here and just to hunt for job but when you came to window did you get a job I did not get anyone so when I came in window so I came to stay with my elder sister her name is Velimina Shambhagala how old were you when you left your place to I was 21 21 21 years old and when you came here your sister was taking care of you yes because you didn't get a job so what were you doing since you didn't get a job you created your own job or something yeah while I was still there I started to correcting waste material but I use of I make use of these coke bottles to cut them and plant some few few plants on that then I just have to to see whether they can maybe adapt the soil to make some plant growing and then later on when I see that the plants are growing so nice so I start to increase them in number but then it was no more the so it now here when I came to clean up this place when you go here you're staying with your sister which means this was not your place what was happening here so with this place it was just a place that was community member considered that it's like a dumping site or where they have to put all the waste materials in case they are cleaning up their places so it was gathered of all of those waste material or something so when I I ask of the permission from the leaders of this area so they show me just this was just the portion that they can give me and for me I did not really bother to say it's dirty or what I decide to clean up all the slabs and everything that was scattered here so I mean did the people accept the fact that this place will no longer be a refuse dump when you start a building we don't know I mean trying to disturb you or anything like that so from the beginning when the community member give me a go ahead to say if you don't mind so that one is you can maybe clean up so from the very first day when I came here I start cleaning up and the the waste from the main glove a lot this side so this where the people always pass by and when they came to find me busy all the time so they have to stand and pass discourage word to say what this men wasting his time doing here in this dirty place of something so they were like kind of discouraging me and for me I never bother to say what they are saying I proceed I proceed but then it was not easy because if I take you back by saying that while I was still with my sister I try to came up with a three of this can or where I put my plants so I brought them along here while the place was still in progress for me to clean it up but then while I kept them somewhere so those guys they they see them and they kick because to them it was like yo this guy he's wasting time like a football yes yes then I say guys what are doing there as you see that I'm busy then I said no man for us we stay long time here in window can as you can say this is a lucky soil we never had seen someone trying to plant in window where you see it so which means no one was planting in here yeah I think for them they believe that window is not good for planting yes yes wow you are in inspiration and even what I'm seeing in this house alone is like you converted this house into a place where even if you enter you have shelter you planted this tree here already there was nothing at all so which year was this I remember the only things which I came to find it was a thorn tree which I cut it off and went by the time I was cleaning and later later when my serious business started so this part of the what the tree that I planted here and this how it's grown big now and we are enjoying the shade yes I like this so what are you doing since you saw there's so many creativity in your house yes and is that a garden or a place people say where the people are sitting yeah you know it's even good for Instagram I see them using Instagram yes over here you can find different types of now plants and even vegetable like we have oh I know it's this I almost wanted to say about this one we call this one it's a sweet sweet cabbage here so we have chili in this can that's maize right yeah thank you we have mango tree over this side you can also see mint yeah yeah yeah this sugar cane and some maize there okay so now I feel like I'm back in my country now okay yes I've been asking for pepper and no one is giving me please can I take this home you know when you go to Ghana we don't eat without pepper when I came here all the food no pepper I'm like can you guys take me back to my country this is a place where you can get pepper now definitely come yeah okay so you know what I want you to do so this is where the farm is or you have the farm somewhere else yeah apart from this one we do have another farm over other side of the location before you take me to your garden I've never been to any house like this before this is going to be my first time and I don't know if it's allowed or you would love to take me around to see what you have in there I mean just for a few minutes yeah I know welcome you already from the main entrance so I think it's not a problem to take you again I will call this one it will be the second step for you to join me inside thank you yeah welcome in this is it's beautiful this can just say it's a a loom to welcome to any guest or to any yes how to use electricity or use solar panel yeah we are using electrical panel oh yeah which is solar yeah but then because we are at the time of corona and hepatitis many diseases that are now coming to disturb us man it's good enough if we can have everyone our self and to end of our guest to first come to this the water point where you can wash your hands with running water and you can also apply soap here so the water is coming from the bucket somewhere here up which I created because we don't have to to buy everything in the shop like because I believe these things is very very expensive and many of our community people they are also complaining when the government it's a promoting healthy among the society to wash hands and so on and we have buckets like this one in the shop which is very expensive and most of our people they are unimproved and they can't afford that's why I'm also one of them I believe myself I can do something like this which can hold water to keep me going I created myself just like this yes I can you can open you can see there is water inside there is water inside yes the water comes here water comes here then sorry I need to really believe what I'm saying I need to use it if it really works yes yes yes just try can you guys believe this where does the water go it passes down yes it passes down on this side you can see it's a it's a slide door slide door please close it for me completely yes close lights on which means the door is closed that can tell that the door is closed you don't have to keep forcing yes oh my goodness lots of you also created yourself everything it's all by myself including my partner here Hilde so she's always my for me it's my left left hand side because yes I'm the main one to say bring this and she will assist me when anything go difficult for me or something here we have a kitchen we have a kitchen so welcome get in it's not a problem so we have learning water so this where you can open this is now where we can enjoy good moment with friends so we can we can live in it here is a living room we can even have dinner lunch here when I was outside I didn't expect that this is how the inside going to look but this is so true that never judge a car by this is the inside view now the engine is the main thing ok within this small living room now we have got this one I can call it's a water fridge water fridge because it's working only with water without water so it's never gonna work proper all things never got frozen tell me that you created this by yourself it's all my effort it's all my thinking it's all about myself just to I've told you that man it's always good if as a man you have to try you just have to try but did you learn this in school? no no no so I already got grade 12 and unfortunately by that time you don't have a choice to say I'm study engineer what engineer you only forced to have geography mathematics just like that you see and then I did not really make it with good point from grade 12 that's why I did not proceed to go to any institution or any academic or something but when I came as I've told you that I came to stay with my sister this few activity that I try to perform or I try to change in practical yes this is a speaker here it's also made by Tatefilippus yes it's it's just someone who was working with I think those guys we call them Kapendri so they left the remaining staff they're always thinking of thrown them away and for me I just have to have eyes hunting everything corner or any side where someone is busy doing kind of things like this and when I see things like this I'm always pick them up and this what I got out of yeah so if you like I can maybe put a bit of a music you listen you see so after I completed or I try to make up this thing or the speaker here yes yes sorry sorry sorry yeah yeah yes Tatefilippus hmm yeah it's too much of the bass it's can play yeah it's playing yeah it's playing it's playing yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah just to yeah just for you to know that it works yeah yeah yeah yes yes yes so this way we can sit as a family or friends we can have dinner we eat yeah and if I will start with chair I will say everything here it's something again from from those guys that are making cupboard and they are always they are always thinking of throwing things away and for me it's where they create my happiness don't tell me that because I don't use to say anything I'm just look at them and I'll call them later to come and see of what I have done out of what yes but then I don't have machine brother so we just have to use stone to level or to to create things I mean I don't have machine to cut because we have to we have to use stones if you if you have this one but it's not straight and you have hard stone you can just have this one yeah then you can call it squeezing or pull up and down like this until things go straight and you remove this kind of zig zang things whatever I don't know but to make it smooth to make it smooth fan tuning or whatever ask for this fridge there you bought it that one I don't want to lie as you see yes from this point I'll take you through the corridor you have to come with me so it's a bit but don't worry I will be directed by the right here from the corridor now this the bathroom so the bathroom we have a shower and also we have a toilet uh uh into the toilet and the shower from my left side uh huh so I will first start with the shower so we have waters that can you can enjoy shower man here you see the water lands you see yeah once you are done getting now here everything is okay or maybe you prefer that the nature is calling here is the toilet and we have some a liquid material so it's soup that you have to apply with the sitting pot or this one here we just have to make it in such a way that it can make you to feel a bit okay when you leave yourself so we have the music on automatic the music if I can place here yes now it's like let's say you came now and then you sit so that's how the music will sit I mean it will sing do you think if a music playing like this would you still be having some no no no no I think you try to get me so which means that you don't want people to know that you are in here you don't want to hear the sound yes yes you created this thing to by yourself yes I also created it by myself brother yes it's all about my way of thinking to do things yes from now here we move to the gentlemen's that the godfrids yes so this one is too small we don't have fresh air coming in but you see the they are moving meaning that the air is penetrating from somewhere so the guy used to enjoy the library so I never heard him complaining of anything apart from saying that maybe the book is kicking him obviously the book has to but then that one is not a problem you just have to go through that this is the small library that I created for my boy so he said animal behavior plant and so he's also got experience on plants and all those stuff so but the it's a mini library that's a light how do you switch it off we got a switch here that you can just put it off just on the table once you are done you go to sleep then yes I would say that you built your whole house out of waste materials yeah exactly because it's true because I like changing things do we call it being innovative yeah because most of things here were looking so differently and I now have to change them to look into a beautiful color so I like something that is being beautified so that you won't know that this came from build it all whatever build material yes before I end this video I feel like you are a very creative person okay thank you you created something out of nothing and there are so many people that look like you but sometimes they don't want to step forward to go create that thing that I mean it's in them if you have a message for such people what would that message be so all I can say to any fellow Namibian that feel they can't make anything in life without money so someone involved I just want to encourage so every individual that please believe in yourself try to do something in life because God have given us different talents a gift that came free so never spend anything but then people are seated home people they are ever crying of hunger people are ever crying of being jobless but then someone knows how to do things and then if after you came up with something you start you turn it into a business you sell and people start buying or people start liking your product then that's how life is all about that's how you can make living so that's the few message that I I would like to say everyone start show up of your talent don't be ignorant don't feel like so you are unaccountable all those where to say no I have nobody to be on my side no we don't want people to take themselves to their low life kind of things like that but be yourself and have that confidence that one day you will be somewhere which is good thank you so much for talking to me and I hope you are going to take me to your garden to check yes yes nice to meet you to my brother nice thank you so I said with this place here so apart from the other one at home so we came to to do again with the a plant of our but how can you plant in stones stones never never stop me never do anything with plants even if you put seeds in the soil to just penetrate to come out nice nice but we used to help the seeds to grow well by removing some of the sand but now we are not really giving much of the attention to this one since we moved to the new plots this is spinach we call it baby spinach we are supplying to the community members of this area and even to the shop so that's how you harvest it you start it you start the moving one leaf from the bottom or from down Africans are talented no matter how difficult environment that they find themselves they prosper