Destitute Sauyemwa family receives house from Rundu-based fishing firm

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A 37-year-old woman living with disability at Rundu’s Sauyemwa informal settlement, Anna Edward and her child received a house made of corrugated irons valued at N.dollars 60 000 from Kweseka Fishing Company on Friday.

One of the company’s directors, Pastor Johannes Ngondo told Nampa on Saturday that Kweseka Fishing applied for fishing rights in 2018 and was one of the companies from the two Kavango regions to be awarded fishing rights.

‘We identified specific areas of financial support in terms of our community social responsibility by assisting the needy and thus identified Edward and her family,’ Ngondo said.

Ngondo added that, prior to the donation, the family had been living in a house made from clay (mud house) which was very hazardous as it almost fell on them, a situation that prompted the fishing firm to build the house for the destitute family.

Appreciating the gesture, Edward who does not walk properly, took this agency through her ordeal, saying she became disabled when she was in grade one.

‘I remember my right leg would just start swelling and since then I cannot put my rigjt foot firmly on the ground,’ she said.

She thanked the company for coming to their rescue by providin them with a ‘better roof over their head’.

In April, the company also donated a corrugated iron house to a San family at Hamweyi village in the Kavango West Region.

Ngondo said the company will continue to conduct community needs assessments in consultation with community leaders as their key partners in order to assist where they can.

Source: Namibia Press Agency