Youth Corner

Learners around Windhoek gathered at A. Shipena Secondary School to commemorate Menstrual Hygiene Day in the capital  yesterday.

Sometimes you do things you don’t understand or without a reason even. Sometimes you fall prey to your unruly desires, sometimes you lack courage. It’s not every day that you are able to stay strong and do the things that need to be done, not all days are the same.

“Over the past five years, the Namibian economy registered an average growth rate of 4.3 percent. However, with an unemployment rate of 29.9 percent, poverty incidence of 26.9 percent and HIV prevalence of 16.9 percent, a large portion of the Namibian population remains vulnerable.” – UNDPA

WINDHOEK - Twenty-seven-year-old Saara Shatumbu is a medical laboratory scientist serving as a Regional Laboratory Advisor for International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programmes (ICAP) at Columbia University in New York. “I

WINDHOEK – Meet 29-year-old Mesias Alfeus, a Namibian lecturer in financial mathematics at the University of Wollongong (UoW) in Australia. 

WINDHOEK – Over 90 schools in the Khomas Region, both the private and state, have been reached to promote uptake and access to voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services for learners. 

WINDHOEK- Operation Sida Di/Goan which aims to epitomise the dedication and commitment of the Kunene Region by painting the picture of a people willing to stand together to overcome the challenges in the region and country was launched in Kamanjab, last Friday.

Have you seen the crime bulletin for your region? It’s pretty scary and telling.
If you have seen it, it will leave you with more questions than you are willing to answer, you would think those reports are exaggerated.

In a world where money makes the world go round, why volunteer? Why spend your valuable time on an activity that will yield no monetary gain? Why put in the work for an activity that at the end of the day propels an organisation forward that does not look to reimburse your efforts?

WINDHOEK – Auguste Shikongo is a young Namibian PhD candidate who wants to take her studies further and specialise in social work. “I see the way I grew up and I want to bring some changes to those people,” she said. 
“I have family members who are struggling and live in informal settlements,” she pointed out.