1647 barefooted children in the Kunene Region will each receive a brand new pair of shoes this weekend through the Project Never Walk Alone initiative.

Otjomuru Combined School has been renamed after Dr. Libertina Amathila, the former Deputy Prime Minister in her honour for the role she played in the upliftment of the Otjomuru Village in the Epupa Constituency.

33 years after independence, the Kunene Region remains one of the most underdeveloped regions in the country, and its administrative leadership says it is doing all it can with the available resources to change the dire status quo.

Some of those who fled Angola's protracted civil war and have been living in Namibia for more than twenty years still remain without national documents.

Kunene Region, one of the regions with the highest rate of youth unemployment and marginalized communities.

The introduction of the community radio station there was meant to alleviate some of these challenges; however, the targeted group is yet to fully embrace a tool many call "the voice of the poor."

A lack of basic necessities at Ombaka Mobile Primary School in Kunene's Epupa Circuit is severely hampering the delivery of quality education.

These include a lack of classrooms, chairs, desks, stationery, and food.

The  Fransfontein Community Garden in the Kunene Region is thriving after receiving N$12.3 million in funding from the Environmental Investment Fund Namibia.

The Build Together Housing Project, aimed at addressing homelessness in Namibia, has been revived at Fransfontein Settlement in Kunene Region. 

Poaching, compensation policies, and mismanagement of conservancy funds are annoying to those involved in the Community-Based Natural Resources Management Program in Kunene.

Escalating cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), teenage pregnancies and drug abuse have resulted in committees being set up at Outjo in the Kunene Region to help bring the situation under control before it gets completely out of hand.