As parents are preparing to send their children back to school, the caretaker of marginalised learners and students at Rundu Erica Uses is still waiting for assistance from good Samaritans to send their children to school.

Erica Uses, also from the marginalised community, is an unemployed mother of four who takes care of more than 55 marginalised learners and students in the Kavango East Region.

She provides food, toiletries, and other basic needs for school. Uses, however, says this has been a struggle each year.

She accommodates some of them at her house, and although they receive government social grants, it is not sufficient to meet their needs.

Five days before school reopens, Uses says there has been no positive response from people and companies that helped her in the previous years.

Most of the learners under Uses's care are still at their respective villages for holidays.

They are expected to be back in town during the weekend and start getting ready for school.