Youth in Otjiwarongo refuse to lie idle, waiting for job opportunities to be created, and have ventured into selling firewood.

Most residents in Otjiwarongo's informal settlement depend on firewood for cooking and other energy needs, hence the reason to start a firewood business.

Firewood business owner Hamugandjo Shitumba says, "On good days, I would make at least N$1,000 or more. I do have challenges with the car that keeps breaking down when I go get firewood, but I am making money."

Kitchen staff at the Divundu Combined School in the Kavango East Region are using firewood to prepare food for the learners since September last year.

Chief Matron Emma Kangura says the hostel staff is finding it difficult to prepare food with only two pots for about four hundred hostel dwellers as the electric stoves have been out of order.

Kanguru says the learners at times eat bread the whole day.