Family, friends, and neighbors of two of the young boys who were swept away by flash floods on Wednesday held a memorial service on Sunday.

The memorial service was held at Katutura's Damara 7 residential areas.
 
During the memorial service, Naomi Gorases, mother of late 21-year-old Billy Goraseb, said her son used to hustle and provide for the family.

The last time she spoke to him was over the phone on that fateful morning, while he was out searching for food for the family.

He was to bring home Oros and sugar for his mother to make ice blocks for sale.

Gorases, a mother in distress, says she does not even have money to bury her son.

"I took care of him alone, and it wasn't easy; we struggled all his life, and maybe he was tired of struggling because he was always quiet and thinking, then going out to hustle; that's the struggle life, and we always had very little."

A family member of another victim, 16-year-old Densley Hoxobeb, named Michael Gawachab, had this to say: "Just as you know the kids are, he didn't like to be controlled at home, which is why he always just went out."

Magriet Hoxobes is Hoxobeb's grandmother. Hoxobeb was one of the six children Ouma Hoxobes was looking after.

"I stayed with the deceased until his death, and I live with six children who hustle and struggle alongside me; I don't even know how to bury this one, so I need assistance."