The US Embassy this week awarded
grants worth close to N$600,000 to twenty local community groups. The US mission
said the grants under its Self-Help Programme support job creation and
income-generating activities as well as projects that improve the social
conditions of community members – especially those of socially vulnerable
groups. Projects funded in the past have included art and [...]

It is estimated that one
billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. That?s roughly
100 times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year. About
24000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes worldwide.
Three-quarters of the deaths are children under the age of five. The United
Nations World Food Programme [...]

LifeLine/Childline
Namibia is starting with their annual ?Light a Candle for a Child Christmas
Campaign? on Monday, 31 October. Symbolic Candles are sold to corporations for
N$250 per candle and volunteers of the organisation will sell symbolic candles
to the public at N$10 in November and December. Educational Institutions are
welcome to support the campaign by donating an amount affordable [...]

Under the theme
?Give every child the best start in life?, the National ECD-NGO Association, in
partnership with Total Child, UNICEF, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child
Welfare, is organizing a Children?s Village Festival and Exhibition for 24
November. As part of the event, children will march from the Kudu along
Independence Avenue to the Parliament gardens and hand [...]

Betesda Medical
Centre is private clinic at the corner of Independence Avenue and Abraham
Mashego Street in Katutura. It was established in 2002. ?The Centre aims to
provide modern affordable and high-quality health and medical services, curative
and preventive health care services backed up by modern facilities and highly
qualified, dedicated staff?, according to Sister Shivute. The Betesda Medical
Centre offers [...]

The message is
clear: Abstain from casual sex; Be faithful; Use a condom. This is what HIV/AIDS
people call the ‘ABC’ approach. In Namibia, the adverts are on radio, on
television and on billboards. Countries that have had the ABC approach for a
long time, such as Uganda, swear by its effectiveness. However, the practicality
of the ABC approach is [...]

The Namibia Professional
Hunting Association (NAPHA) held its annual workshop this week in Windhoek and
discussed issues like its code of conduct and predator hunting. Joern Wiedow,
NAPHA?s newly appointed CEO, was introduced to the members and a list of issues
raised by the NAPHA membership earlier this year was presented with actions that
were taken to resolve these concerns. [...]

Oracle announced in
November that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership
with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Office
for Project Services (UNOPS), has deployed Oracle?s PeopleSoft enterprise
resource planning (ERP) solution in 145 countries in order to integrate
disparate systems, standardize business processes and enable global offices to
collaborate more effectively. The ERP solution [...]

?The year 2005 was
indeed a watershed for the City of Windhoek, and I, as the Mayor of Windhoek,
present our seasonal greetings and express our profound appreciation for the
unwavering support we received from all the residents and tourists throughout
the year in our quest to enhance economic development as a concerted effort to
improve the quality of life [...]

?As we remember World
AIDS Day, I recall three very important people in my life and the Namibia Red
Cross Society?s efforts to respond to the HIV/pandemic. One is Alice Fisch, a
volunteer who was not HIV positive and who supervised the work of the Red Cross
in Khomasdal and Otjomuise, the other a young man who was a [...]