The Amarok Club Namibia has come to the aid of a destitute mother of five in Sauyenwa, an informal settlement west of Rundu.

Siyapa Maria Mayanga and her children used to sleep in a structure made of plastic and old corrugated iron sheets.

Mayanga can only buy food for her children by collecting bottles to sell, and she sometimes has to beg.

The Amarok Club came to her aid, constructing a corrugated iron house worth N$15,000 for them.

Mayanga takes care of three of her children, while the other two live with their father's family.

Rundu Urban Constituency Councilor Victoria Kauma handed over the donation.

The constituency councilor pledged to pay N$300 per month to one of Mayanga's neighbors if they allowed her to fetch water from their tap.

Mayanga is a 37-year-old single mother who moved from Kayeura Village in the Kavango West Region to Rundu in search of a job after both her parents died.