The Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN), in collaboration with the South African Bone Marrow Registry, has urged Namibians who are between the ages of 16 and 45 to donate bone marrow stem cells to save lives.

The call was made during the National Awareness Week campaign in Windhoek.

The awareness week will focus on the importance of lifestyle changes, hereditary risk factors, and how early detection can impact the course of cancer in people's lives.

People were advised not to sign up as donors if they were not sure about themselves or feared the process.

Project Hope has donated school uniforms to more than 50 learners and water tanks to schools in Kavango East Region.

The project aims to help children below the age of 17 who are from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The schools that benefited from the project are Maputa, Thikanduko, Shipando, Karukuta, and Aloys Hashipara primary schools.

The project targets helping children living with HIV, those born to female sex workers, victims of GBV, children living in child-headed households, orphans, young mothers, and pregnant children.

The Old Mutual Foundation has donated N$90,000 worth of items to assist flood victims in the Oshana and Ohangwena regions.

The items include water tanks, food parcels, toiletries, and water purification tablets.

The items are to be distributed to eight relocation centers in Ohangwena, where close to 400 flood victims are housed.

Other flood victims to benefit are in the Oshana Region, accommodated at the Ehenye Relocation Center.

About 250 people from 46 households in the Ohangwena Region are currently affected.

Member of Parliament and Berseba Constituency Regional Councillor, Jeremias Goeieman has appealed to the ||Kharas Regional Health Directorate to enhance health care delivery to rural communities.

He made the request during a handing-over ceremony of a donation of medical equipment at Berseba Village.

Goeieman also seized the opportunity to remind health workers, especially nurses, that their career is a calling and not a profession.