Water crisis closes Orumana school

OPUWO – More than 500 pupils at Orumana Combined School, about 20 kilometres south of Opuwo, started boycotting classes yesterday morning, demanding a lasting solution to the water problem that has troubled the school for years.

“The school has been without water for the last two weeks now and the situation is out of control,” said principal Markus Munenge. “We are going to close the school right away,” he said.The school will be closed for two weeks while the administrative staff look into options to solve the problem.The school board visited the office of the Director of Education in the Kunene Region on Monday and they were informed that the office could not do anything about the problem.”The school board members were informed that the office of the Director wrote letters and requested money to be used for drilling a borehole, but is seems as if there is no money for that,” Munenge said.He said the school board would travel to Windhoek to meet the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and possibly the Prime Minister to seek help in solving the water problem at the school.The school has been using a community borehole, on which it installed a water pump, but this broke down two weeks ago.Nampa”We are going to close the school right away,” he said.The school will be closed for two weeks while the administrative staff look into options to solve the problem.The school board visited the office of the Director of Education in the Kunene Region on Monday and they were informed that the office could not do anything about the problem.”The school board members were informed that the office of the Director wrote letters and requested money to be used for drilling a borehole, but is seems as if there is no money for that,” Munenge said.He said the school board would travel to Windhoek to meet the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and possibly the Prime Minister to seek help in solving the water problem at the school.The school has been using a community borehole, on which it installed a water pump, but this broke down two weeks ago.Nampa