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| 2013-08-07Govt to provide ‘matangara’ as drought relief to the needy
Tripe (matangara)
• TJIKUNDA KULUNGA
OPUWO – Deputy Prime Minister Marco Hausiku says the Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco) has been contracted to provide drought relief beneficiaries with meat products to supplement the maize meal they receive.
OPUWO – Deputy Prime Minister Marco Hausiku says the Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco) has been contracted to provide drought relief beneficiaries with meat products to supplement the maize meal they receive.
Hausiku told the Governor of Kunene Josua //Hoebeb and regional councillors of this development at an emergency meeting held at Opuwo where he had gone to familiarise himself with the drought situation in the Kunene Region.
The region has been hit hard by drought for two consecutive years.
“Meatco will provide the drought relief programme with tinned meat products and cattle matangara (offals),” Hausiku stated.
The Deputy PM thus called on beneficiaries to appreciate what they will be provided with and not to be selective, adding that these products are not being offered to them ‘for pleasure’ but due to the emergency situation caused by the drought.
“Please, the beneficiaries should receive whatever is being provided to them, be it matangara or fish . . . as we are in an emergency [situation], and should try and adapt,” he noted.
Meatco delivered 330 boxes of corned beef to the main drought relief food warehouse at Opuwo on Wednesday, which was set to be delivered to other warehouses in the region for further distribution.
The Opuwo warehouse also received 279 boxes of tinned fish and 29 boxes of corned beef from the drought relief supplies, which were recently donated by the Russian Government as part of its drought food assistance to Namibia.
Namib Mills has additionally been contracted to deliver 60 000 x 12,5kg bags of maize meal to the Kunene Region every month throughout the drought.
The Disaster Risk Management Unit coordinator at the Kunene Regional Council, Lucas Tjoola, confirmed to Nampa on Monday that two truckloads of maize meal were delivered to the main warehouse in Opuwo by Namib Mills last week.
He added that the distribution of the food to the beneficiaries will commence as soon as the restocking of other warehouses has been completed. – Nampa
The region has been hit hard by drought for two consecutive years.
“Meatco will provide the drought relief programme with tinned meat products and cattle matangara (offals),” Hausiku stated.
The Deputy PM thus called on beneficiaries to appreciate what they will be provided with and not to be selective, adding that these products are not being offered to them ‘for pleasure’ but due to the emergency situation caused by the drought.
“Please, the beneficiaries should receive whatever is being provided to them, be it matangara or fish . . . as we are in an emergency [situation], and should try and adapt,” he noted.
Meatco delivered 330 boxes of corned beef to the main drought relief food warehouse at Opuwo on Wednesday, which was set to be delivered to other warehouses in the region for further distribution.
The Opuwo warehouse also received 279 boxes of tinned fish and 29 boxes of corned beef from the drought relief supplies, which were recently donated by the Russian Government as part of its drought food assistance to Namibia.
Namib Mills has additionally been contracted to deliver 60 000 x 12,5kg bags of maize meal to the Kunene Region every month throughout the drought.
The Disaster Risk Management Unit coordinator at the Kunene Regional Council, Lucas Tjoola, confirmed to Nampa on Monday that two truckloads of maize meal were delivered to the main warehouse in Opuwo by Namib Mills last week.
He added that the distribution of the food to the beneficiaries will commence as soon as the restocking of other warehouses has been completed. – Nampa
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