New look for Nkurenkuru hostels

RUNDU – Regional Education Director for Rundu, Alfons Dikuwa, says he is happy with the positive response from the Nkurenkuru Hostel Management Committee on the renovation of school accommodation facilities.

Dikuwa told Nampa that he led a team of education officials to the hostels to assess the accommodation situation. He said the hostel management committee had agreed to renovate the hostels.Dikuwa said the hostels, mostly belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCRN), were in an unhygienic condition.The action follows a call by Basic Education Sport and Culture Permanent Secretary Loine Katoma who visited the Nkurenkuru hostels, about 145 kilometres west of Rundu, last month.Katoma instructed the office of the Education Director to meet with the management committees of the affected hostels and come up with ways of improving them.The Nkurenkuru hostel accommodates close to 100 pupils.Katoma suggested that her Ministry provide subsidies for the renovation of hostels.Other hostels earmarked for renovation are Mupini, Rupara and Mpungu.The Finnish missionaries built them all in the early 1970s.- NampaHe said the hostel management committee had agreed to renovate the hostels.Dikuwa said the hostels, mostly belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCRN), were in an unhygienic condition.The action follows a call by Basic Education Sport and Culture Permanent Secretary Loine Katoma who visited the Nkurenkuru hostels, about 145 kilometres west of Rundu, last month.Katoma instructed the office of the Education Director to meet with the management committees of the affected hostels and come up with ways of improving them.The Nkurenkuru hostel accommodates close to 100 pupils.Katoma suggested that her Ministry provide subsidies for the renovation of hostels.Other hostels earmarked for renovation are Mupini, Rupara and Mpungu.The Finnish missionaries built them all in the early 1970s.- Nampa