A grandmother of a child with a disability in Rundu's Sauyemwa Informal Settlement is finding it tough to raise her grandson.

Mariana Sindano says she has been looking after the now nine-year-old child since birth.

The grandmother says Mathias Mingandja was born with a brain defect that stunted his growth and affected his arms and legs.

Sindano says she takes Mingandja to the Rundu State Hospital for physiotherapy every week, but he has shown no improvement in his condition.

A destitute mother of five in Sauyemwa, an informal settlement west of Rundu, is calling on good Samaritans to come to her aid.

Siyapa Maria Mayanga, a 37-year-old single mother, moved from Kayeura Village in the Kavango West Region to Rundu in search of a job after both her parents died.

Mayanga only relies on collecting bottles to sell to buy food for her kids, and at times she has to beg for food when she does laundry or cleans yards for the people in the settlement.

An incomplete hall and kitchen at the Ruben Makanga Combined School at Rundu's Sauyemwa Informal Settlement were destroyed by a heavy wind that came with the torrents this week.

According to the school's principal, Maria Kudumo, more than N$150,000 has already been spent on the structure's foundation and roof.

Kudumo says the disaster is a blow to the school as the structure was also used as an examination venue.