Marcella Katjijova

Marcella Katjijova has over eight years’ experience as a psychological counselor, helping to rehabilitate individuals with substance and sex addictions. Marcella is a graduate of Psychology form the University of Namibia.She currently works with the Ministry of Labor, where she serves as a career counselor, offering psychometric testing, motivational talks, counselling and pre-retirement counselling. Marcella Katjijova is the founder of Here4Her foundation, a nonprofit organisation set up to provide teenage school girls in rural areas with reusable sanitary towels and to empower them with life skills to enable them to becoming independent. With one in ten African girls likely to miss between three to five school days per month for a lack of sanitary wear, her goal is to keep girls in school so they benefit maximally from their education. Her passion to serve and develop the community is also seen in her community work with the Epango Charity Group, where she serves as a volunteer catering to the needs of senior citizens in her country. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Marcella hopes to have learned a lot about civic leadership and to use this knowledge to further grow her organization to produce and provide reusable sanitary towels for teenage girls in Namibia.