More than 70 beneficiaries of drought relief at the Diary Compound in Katima Mulilo received food parcels on Wednesday. 

Each household received food rations of two 20kg bags of maize meal, two 1.5kg bags of meat, and two 750ml bottles of cooking oil.

One of the beneficiaries, Manyando Mayaha, complained that she had to wait for a long time for the distributing team to arrive while also raising concern about the distances they had to travel to the receiving point.
 
"They took a long time to come, and the place where they told us to meet to get our food is very far from our places; some of us live far away, and the transport challenge is also getting harder, like some places where cars cannot reach."

Eustace Kushalwa is another beneficiary who raised concern about the fact that mostly only women came out to receive food assistance.

"The condition I saw when I arrived was worrisome because I only found a queue full of women. Where are the men? Of the 76 people who are here, only 6 are men. This can't go on like this. It's really worrisome. How were the people informed when a door-to-door campaign was conducted? It seems as if it was only women who were told about this initiative. I want to see a queue of men and women to equalise things." 

Katima Mulilo Urban Councillor, Kennedy Simasiku, shared with the nbc News team the progress made on the programme so far. 

"Registration started in November last year, and there is a list of about 1,144 people who were authorised, or rather approved, to receive drought relief. This is the first distribution ever since the registration was approved, so I must say that it has taken a bit of time, but it's finally here, and we are hoping that as time goes on, all the people who were approved will receive their drought relief."

The voucher system, Simasiku says, is still to be implemented as the process of registering beneficiaries on the new system is ongoing.
 
The drought relief programme is still continuing as per registration.