ONGWEDIVA LAUNCHES BACKYARD GARDENING PROJECT
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Ongwediva Mayor Naemi Amuthenu has launched the Mayor's Community Backyard Gardening Project aimed at improving food security and promoting self-reliance among residents of the town.
Ongwediva Mayor Naemi Amuthenu has launched the Mayor's Community Backyard Gardening Project aimed at improving food security and promoting self-reliance among residents of the town.
The Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform, Ruthy Masaka, has called on the community of Aussenkehr to utilise government-subsidised programmes to boost food security and agricultural development.
She made the call during her familiarisation visit to the ||Kharas Region.
Leaders in Namibia’s Erongo Region are urging urgent measures to harness the economic opportunities at Uis, focusing on tourism, mining, and community empowerment.
More than 50 pairs of school shoes, sanitary towels and deodorant were handed over to the Office of the Erongo Governor as part of a community empowerment drive by the 4x4 Initiative Foundation in Swakopmund.
A Kalkrand youth has urged the government to invest in skills development infrastructure to tackle the village's socio-economic challenges.
Brandon Titus envisions a vibrant Kalkrand, shedding its "sleeping village" label.
The Chairperson of the Omaheke Regional Council, Rocco Nguvauva, said his office will prioritise community empowerment through income-generating projects.
Nguvauva made the remarks during the handing over of income-generating project donations at Du Plessis Plaas in the Okorukambe Constituency.
Conservancies in both the ||Kharas and Hardap regions are reflecting on the extent to which the Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) model has contributed to improving livelihood and protecting the environment.
The Okorukambe Constituency Office in the Omaheke Region has aided residents at Omitara Settlement with material to begin income-generating activities.
The office also assisted three local schools with modern technology, all to a combined value of N$200,000.
The African Monarch Lodges continues to empower local residents with vocational skills in various trades at the Sijwa Project in Zambezi's Kongola Constituency.
The project repurposes recyclable waste from the African Monarch Lodges into salable crafts.
Over a hundred residents of Rehoboth Block E have benefited from the town council's ongoing title deed handover and debt write-off initiative.