The Namibia Training Authority (NTA) visited the Tsumkwe Constituency to address barriers preventing marginalized communities from accessing technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and the high school dropout rate.

Addressing the workshop, NTA research coordinator Tuwilika Shikongo highlighted various challenges and barriers faced by the marginalized community.

She said the focus would be placed on ensuring that marginalized groups and persons with disabilities have access to TVET programs to uplift them and improve their living conditions.

UNFPA, the Office of the Governor and the Omaheke Regional Council handed over food parcels to marginalized communities in Gobabis.

This is part of the initiative by Governor Pijoo Nganate to curb malnutrition in the region.

Child malnutrition is linked to poverty, low levels of education and poor access to health services and a recent report by the World Bank estimates that 1,6 million Namibians live in poverty.

Two children died because of malnutrition in Gobabis recently.

Epupa Constituency Councilor Kuuoko Tjimutambo has reiterated his position over the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Epupa, saying the marginalized community will be negatively affected.

Tjimutambo confronted a stakeholders conference on the Baynes Hydropower Project that took place in Swakopmund, arguing that the construction of an electricity plant is all well and good, but the designated site is considered an ancestral burial ground.

If the community is to be moved, he suggests that they be resettled on government farms.