An increase in cancer cases has placed tremendous pressure on the Oncology Ward at the Windhoek Central Hospital.

Zimbabwe's Embassy in Namibia has donated new needlecraft equipment to the Ngaukujame Community Project run by women at Omaheke's Ovinjuru Village. 

Ambassador Melody Chaurura says empowering rural women is one of the fundamental aspects of community development. 

The NamPower Foundation and the Round Table Hochland 154 group of medics have donated an autoclave machine to the Epukiro Post-3 Clinic.

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.

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 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.

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.