Regional council gives Berseba projects N$100 000 boost

COMMUNITY projects at Berseba in the //Kharas region received a boost of over N$100 000 from the //Kharas Regional Council on Thursday.

Berseba constituency councillor Jeremiah Goeieman said community members took a bold step to organise themselves among projects to address poverty in their respective communities.

“I should applaud you for not waiting on the government to fight the issue of unemployment, which is very rife in the Berseba constituency.

Poverty usually has its own negative social issues of hunger, school dropouts, crime, teenage pregnancies, alcohol and drug abuse,” he said.

The Gainachas Women Against Poverty project, comprising 30 women, received 50 bags of cement and building material to complete a community hall to the value of N$10 000.

The //Khorabasen Da Ni Cooperative received fencing material, cement, feeders and water equipment for their poultry project to the value of N$12 000.

The group comprises 18 Berseba residents.

Woeker-en-Bou project comprises two unemployed women from Tses and received 100 bags of cement to the value of N$10 000, and the Gainachas Development Cooperative, comprising 41 farmers from Gainachas, Kutenhoas, Rooiwang and Berseba, received 26 ewes and one ram valued at N$34 000.

The Kutenhoas Youth Brickmaking project received 50 bags of cement, a mixer, and other items to the value of N$35 000.

These projects were selected by local and constituency development committees, and are expected to plough back into the community.

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