Family still needs help A family of 20 who were left homeless after 14 huts at their traditional homestead were destroyed by fire say they still need assistance.Namibian Sun last month reported that the family from Onangama village in the Ongenga constituency of the Ohangwena Region, consisting of three pensioners, six adults and 11 children, were asking for donations after losing all their belongings in the fire.
Johanna Haundidi, who is the daughter of the house owner, 79-year-old Jolonimo Ngholoimune, yesterday said they had received three bags of maize meal from their constituency councillor''s office, and their neighbours assisted them with clothes and helped them to build two huts.
Haundidi said most of them sleep in the burnt huts without roofs and they don''t know what they will do once it starts raining.
“We really need help as we just sleep in those burnt huts and the rain is about to come, we really need people to help us,” she said.
At the time of the incident, village headman Cleophas Daniel consulted the constituency councillor''s office, who directed the family to write down the items they had lost in the fire.
The family say they did so immediately and all they received was maize meal.
Contacted for comment, the councillor for Ongenga Constituency, Sakaria Haimudi, said his office was aware of the family''s situation but because of the limited resources they have they cannot assist them further.
KENYA KAMBOWE