The Shoprite mobile soup kitchen initiative, which started in 2019, continues to receive praise for its contribution to food security and hunger alleviation across the country.

The Osona Fishing company handed over food parcels to 200 households in Tsumkwe, which brought relief and joy to families ahead of the festive season.
The food parcels are worth N$150,000. 

The community received food parcels including maize meal, rice, macaroni, cooking oil, sugar and canned fish.

The Cradle of Hope Foundation hosted its first-ever Christmas lunch in Swakopmund's DRC informal settlement, where they fed more than 170 children.

The event highlighted the urgent need for stronger support systems for vulnerable girls and gender-based violence victims in the community.

The Office of the Kavango West Governor donated 100 fruit trees to residents of Nkurenkuru Constituency as part of efforts to keep Kavango West green and food self-sustained.

The Tsumkwe constituency office, through the Otjozondjupa Regional Council, has stepped in to strengthen the education sector.

The office donated a photocopy machine and other school essentials to Makata Primary School.

The Dina Namubes Community Upliftment and Youth Empowerment Programme Foundation handed over two fire extinguishers to two community soup kitchens in the DRC informal settlement at Swakopmund.

Ohaingu Primary School in the Ohangwena Region welcomed a donation of a newly constructed fence valued at N$60,000 from Capricorn Foundation and various other sponsors.

The First National Bank of Namibia has contributed N$150,000 towards the third Namibia Health Exhibition, taking place from the 14th to the 15th of next month.

The mother of the two young siblings who died in a fire recently in Swakopmund's DRC informal settlement has denied allegations that she was absent from home at the time of the tragic incident.

Senior citizens whose government social grant is their only source of income continue to bear the burden of caring for family members. 

However, the household of Kapango Kapango, a resident of Fumbe Village in the Kavango East Region, is worse off than many others and is in a sorry state.