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Auguste Shikongo in 2009-2011 volunteered at the MISA before and during at the University of Namibia (UNAM) where she undertook an undergraduate program in Social Work. She has maintained her association with MISA community and has a long history of community service in MISA. She engaged in voluntary work with Catholic Aids Action where she was involved in an assessment and evaluation project to identify and register orphans and vulnerable children. During her master’s program, she went to numerous schools located in other Informal Settlement Areas in Windhoek to empower children by engaging them in discussions of the social issues that affect their lives. She also taught life skills to children in various age categories; provided strategies on how to abstain from drugs, alcohol and other destructive menaces through games such as puzzles and role plays to effect behavioral change; helped children to identify abuse and report when adults abuse and neglect them or when they suspect child abuse and neglect in the area. She has also served as a volunteer kindergarten teacher as well as an adult literary teacher at MISA.