We were crying, where is our Bohemia
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Jafet Veshiinge Haundjodjo was born on 26 July 1976 in the Nyango exile camp in Zambia. A few years later he was moved to Lubango camp in Angola where, as a young child, he experienced the 1983 bombing of one of the settlements belonging to the camp by the South African army. In 1985 he flew to Czechoslovakia together with 55 other Namibian children as part of the Czechoslovakia’s international aid to the Marxist SWAPO movement. This became the ruling political party after the liberation of Namibia. He spent the years 1985 to 1988 with a group of Namibian children at the castle in Bartošovice in the Nový Jičín region. From 1988 to 1991 he lived with a group of Namibian children in a former spa in Prachatice. In 1991, at the request of the Namibian government, he returned to his homeland together with other children from Prachatice and Považská Bystrica. He later returned to the Czech Republic thanks to a special scholarship for “Namibian children” after finishing secondary school to pursue university studies. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in health care at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. In 2022, he was living in Namibia and working as a nurse supervisor in the prison clinic at the Gobabis Correctional Facility.
