Keetmanshoop writes off N$75 million in debts for vulnerable groups
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The Keetmanshoop Municipality has written off municipal debts totalling N$75 million for senior citizens, the unemployed, and people with disabilities.
The Keetmanshoop Municipality has written off municipal debts totalling N$75 million for senior citizens, the unemployed, and people with disabilities.
Some offenders at the Divundu Correctional Facility in the Kavango East Region say the educational programmes on offer have given them a new lease on life.
The Divundu Correction Facility is not a place where inmates allow themselves to remain idle.
A resident of Katwitwi in the Kavango West Region, Abraham Mungowa has turned to innovation to address his community's day-to-day needs.
Using recycled materials, he designed a grain thresher machine that can thresh both mahangu and sorghum from their stalks.
In an effort to revitalise agriculture and uplift rural communities, Swakop Uranium officially launched the Hope Farm Project at Farm Dawed in the area of Usakos.
The initiative is aimed at transforming the lives of vulnerable communities through sustainable livestock farming.
NamPost will take over the payment of all social welfare grants under the cash pay mode starting 1st October this year.
The Ministry of Finance shared this information during the launch of the regional engagement initiative on social grants at Rundu.

A group of residents in Gobabis handed over a petition to the Minister of Urban and Rural Development, James Sankwasa, claiming maladministration
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called on the Namibian youth to make use of the N$257 million National Youth Fund.
She made the remarks during the official opening of the 15th Eenhana Expo.

Vice President Lucia Witbooi has emphasised the need for collaborations to create opportunities for National
Some Katutura residents in Windhoek, under the Katutura Residents Committee, petitioned the City of Windhoek, calling on the municipality to write off debts of pensioners under the 43 build-together groups, as well as the contract renewal of debt collector RedForce.
Known as the stubborn dreamer, Miss Namibia, Johanna Swartbooi, hails from the dusty streets of Vaalgras, situated 100 kilometres east of Keetmanshoop.