Summary: During the week, Ohangwena and Kavango regions trained volunteers in community infant and young child feeding (IYCF). The training attracted 40 volunteers in Kavango region and 118...
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Household Food Security Assessment - Namibia, July 2013
Executive summary Namibia is an arid country, regularly affected by erratic rainfall and dry spells. As are result, people have developed a number of coping mechanisms to improve their food and...
Preparing communities for disasters & emergencies
Preparing rural Khomas communities for disasters and emergencies From 5 to 9 November 2012, staff and volunteers from the Namibia Red Cross Society teamed up with the Ministry of Information and...
Life in Caprivi relocation camps
The challenge of learning and teaching in Caprivi's flood relocation camps By Rosemary Nalisa, Namibia Red Cross Society National Coordinator, Resource Mobilisation. It is quarter to one on Friday...
Improving access to safe water in the Kunene, Ohangwena and Kavango regions
Access to sanitation and water is a human right and an issue of human dignity, but there are over 800 million people in the world without lack access to safe water (World Health Organization, 2012). ...
Namibia geared to vaccinate 900,000 children
Onayena, Northen Namibia, 1 June 2012: The Government of Namibia, led by the Ministry of Health and Social Services launched today the National Immunization campaign focusing on Measles. The aim of...
Food shortages a major concern for the flood victims
The people who were affected by floods this year are appealing for government intervention in the looming food shortages. The affected communities lost their crops, whole others lost animals that...
Namibia Red Cross Society brings clean water to thousands of the Himba community in the Kunene Region
by Rosemary Nalisa The Namibia Red Cross Society has made the phrase “water is life ‘, a reality for thousands of people in the Kunene Region where it has constructed 300 water pumps and 50 wells,...
Red Cross News - May 2011
Inside this edition NRCS responds to floods NRCS donates N$10 000 towards a Liver Patient Ohangwena Regional branch Commemorates International Volunteer Day and World Aids Day HBC Project a milestone...
WHO and Namibia Red Cross announce strategy to avert disease outbreaks
Windhoek: 10 May 2011 - The World Health Organization (WHO) Country office in Namibia and the Namibian Red Cross Society (NRCS) today announced its joint health strategy to respond to the flood...
2011 Flood Appeal - Namibia, North East, Nort Western and Southern Regions
Flood Appeal The Namibia Red Cross Society appeals for support from members of the public to assist more than 20,000 people affected by floods in the north-east, north-western and southern regions of...
Appeal for Haiti Earthquake victims
The Namibia Red Cross Society is appealing for financial donations from members of the public of Namibia, financial institutions and other sectors to contribute to the assistance offered to the...
Namibia: Red Cross news magazine
2009 Flood The 2009 flood was a major event, with levels not experienced since the late 1960's (a 40 year flood). On the 17th of March the President of the Republic of Namibia, His Excellency...
Namibia: Red Cross support continues for flood affected communities
The Current situation in Caprivi Region The current situation in the thirty one (31) camps established in both the Katima Mulilo rural and Kabbe constituencies where the flood victims are camping is...
Close to 300, 000 population affected by floods in the northern region of Namibia
Namibia has been hit by yet another devastating flood that have left close to 300, 000 people affected in the north and north eastern regions. This is a second year these regions are experiencing...
Namibia Red Cross - Annual Report 2008
Introduction Namibia has experienced one of its worst floods in over fifty years in the northern regions of the country at the beginning of 2008. The response to the floods was one of the major...