Community members in Gam gathered on Friday to mark Adult Learners' Week ahead of International Literacy Day, with regional leaders calling for an end to the social stigma surrounding adult education.
Residents of Gam in the Otjozondjupa Region have raised concerns over years of unreliable electricity that left them with spoiled food supplies and children unable to study at night.
A 20-year-old, Kaipandjarua Tjiposa from Gam, is appealing to the government to intervene and assist her in getting the necessary identification documents after spending her entire life without a birth certificate or national identity document.
Tjiposa says she was raised by her uncle, who died in 2021.
Residents of Tsumkwe and surrounding areas are frustrated following a loss of MTC signal that left the constituency in the dark for three days.
The challenge of MTC network failure is not new to the isolated settlement.
A total of 105 unemployed young people in Gam have successfully completed a skills and development training programme.
Otjozondjupa Governor James Uerikua handed over food items to the Namibians who had been repatriated from Botswana and are settled at Gam and members of the San community in his village.
Since Gam was declared a settlement in 2011, development has taken shape, with the regional leadership optimistic that it could be declared a town in the near future.
