The San community at Tsintsabis no longer wants to be associated with their recognised status as marginalised. The community has made a plea for jobs and training opportunities to be considered on par with citizens elsewhere in the country. Young people from the settlement took to the streets in protest against a lack of opportunities...
Heroes are often described as selfless people willing to make sacrifices to help others. 49-year-old Erica Uses is a lifeline to more than 60 marginalised youth. Uses, an unemployed single mother of four, houses about 14 marginalised youth, whom she assists with furthering their studies and provides with food on a daily basis. Uses says...
The principal of the Cocoma Primary School in the Kavango East Region’s Ndiyona Constituency caters for more than 140 marginalised learners from his school and surrounding areas. The principal and his staff go out of their way to cater for the learners basic needs. Moses Munuma Ndumba says that in 2008, when he became the...
Even though the Namibian government is doing its best to uplift the standards of living for marginalised communities, much still needs to be done to reach levels of satisfaction. Regional Development Planner in the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication, and Social Welfare, Desiree Masheshe, remarked this during an oversight visit by the Parliamentary Standing...
