A hostel business in Ohangwena

Maria David
PRESIDENTIAL CONSTITUTIONAL ADVISOR, Inge Zaamwani-Kamwi, said that Omungwelume and Shituwa secondary schools would assist in the construction of a school reception center to be completed in November this year. .
Zaamwani-Kamwi made the remarks at President Hage Geingob's public meeting in Eenhana, Ohangwena region on Wednesday.
She gave feedback on the issues raised in this regard during the series of presidential meetings held in 2015 as a result of the request to build a home in several schools.
However, Informanté understood that the construction of a school center for the SS of Omungwelume had still not begun, despite the funds raised during the initiative of the gala dinner of schools for the construction of a center.
A reliable source told Informanté that the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture had put an end to the construction of the hostel and that material was still on the site and that nothing would be it could ruin it.
Speaking at the same meeting, Namibia Region President George Hafilwa (NANTU), president of the Ohangwena region, said the report on the hostels did not reflect what is happening in the field.
According to Hafilwa, the revised curriculum subjects learners to unsafe conditions. Learners aged 15 to 16 are forced to rent or stay alone without a guide.
Hafilwa said poverty-stricken parents were paying up to N $ 400 a month and had children sleeping in rooms adjacent to bars and noisy places.
"This is happening in Endola, Omungwelume, Ondobe, Eenhana, Oshikunde, Okongo and many other areas," he said.
NANTU called on the president to intervene to save the learners currently suffering at Omungwelume SS, the Oupili Combined School, SS Ondobe, Shituwa SS and many others in order to save the lives of the students. to improve the life of a Namibian child.