Prior to the start of its highly anticipated annual cultural festival, the PSTBET Windhoek Annual Cultural Festival, a prominent advocate for community vibrancy and cultural celebration, has reached out to support the women offenders at the Windhoek Correctional Service.

This year's festival theme, centered around women empowerment, highlights the festival's dedication to nurturing positive change and inclusivity within society.

Since its inception in 2019, the festival has been continuously evolving and growing.

The "Keep a Girl Child in School" initiative aims to empower and educate young women on menstrual hygiene management and reproductive health and provide them with sanitary pads.

Three young women from the Omaheke Region, Jatjizavi Kavendjaa, Otja Kavara, and Kakuna Katuuo, came together and started the "Keep a Girl Child in School" initiative.

The project, which started in January this year, has covered six different schools in Omaheke thus far, and there are plans to visit Outjo and Otavi.

The hygienic conditions and self-sustainability of the Walvis Bay Correctional Facility have impressed parliamentarians who visited the facility recently. 

Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence and Security have therefore called on other correctional facilities to emulate the standards.

Built 49 years ago, the Walvis Bay Correctional Facility accommodates 258 male offenders, of which 14 are foreigners while three are awaiting trial.