Deloitte Namibia in collaboration with Children in the Wilderness,
hosted a six day camp in December 2008 at Kulala Wilderness Camp. The camp was
attended by 24 children who took part in an educational and life changing
experience. Pictured are some of the children who attended the six day camp in
December 2008 at the Kulala Wilderness Camp “We [...]

The Namibia Health Plan (NHP) Medical Aid Fund recently became
involved in ground breaking work in the Namibian health care industry when they
entered into the first capitated fee arrangement for the provision of primary
health care services to members of its NHP Blue Diamond option.
The NHP Blue Diamond low-cost benefit option has successfully been
introduced to the previously [...]

Does it sound impossible to give an HIV/AIDS patient N$100,000
cover for a monthly contribution of only N$30? Under a conventional medical aid
fund it is impossible, but with a new innovative approach to affordable
healthcare it is currently being done.
PharmAcces, a Dutch not-for-profit foundation, in partnership with
Prosperity Health and Methealth, has launched a low cost product called [...]

Wilderness Safaris recently hosted a celebration day for the media
and invited guests, especially several of their key sponsors, at their Rhino
Tented Camp situated deep in the heart of the Palmwag Concession area in
Damaraland, as part of their joint venture with The Children in the Wilderness
Trust.
Already in residence for six days, under the guardianship of
Connie Botma [...]

The proposed National Pension Fund (NPF), which was supposed to have
established by the Social Security Commission (SSC) more than three years ago,
still remains a pipe dream, the Economist has established.
The pension fund is meant to cover the working population when they reach the
age of 60 years. Only some 25% of Namibia’s potential labour force enjoys
pension [...]

Standard Bank
financially sponsored the Corporate Orphans Nutrition Project that provides
daily nutritional food supplements for orphans with N$170 000 on 25 July. Fritz
Beukes, Administration Assistant at the Catholic AIDS Action Centre, and Mpumzi
Pupuma, Managing Director of Standard Bank, after the bank donated to a feeding
scheme under the Corporate Orphans Nutrition Project. Fritz Beukes,
Administration Assistant at the [...]

The US Embassy this week handed over two newly renovated
lecture rooms, tutors offices and a laboratory at the National Health Training
Centre in Windhoek. Ambassador Dennise Mathieu and Minister of Health and Social
Services Richard Kamwi attended the function. Since 2004, with funding from the
President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), the United States Agency
for International Development [...]

The Tsumeb-based HIV/AIDS
non-governmental organisation Tov says it is constantly thinking of ways of
improving the lives of its clients, HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in
its spheres of influence. A few ago, it received a container from the US Embassy
in Namibia to turn into a tuck shop to generate income for the project. “We at
Tov are Prisoners [...]

The American
Embassy in Namibia has launched a humanitarian centre in the town of Okahandja,
about 65 km north of Windhoek, in an effort to better the lives of the
community. The Okahandja Samaritans Network Centre is a place for the youth and
women, which provides meals to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), as well as
the elderly and terminally [...]

Spring kicking off with a cold
breeze this week cold got me thinking about what was next. I know the cold front
was mentioned in Sunday’s weather forecast, but so many people were walking
around on Monday with short sleeve tops, probably hoping it would get warmer
during the day. One of my colleagues asked me if those people [...]