Zambezi trains food bank street committee members

ABOUT nine members selected for the street committee of the food bank roll-out programme in the Zambezi region have officially started with their week-long training.

The food bank was first rolled out in the Khomas region on 30 June 2016 as a pilot phase by president Hage Geingob, and is aimed at addressing hunger, especially in the urban and peri-urban areas.

Deputy minister of poverty eradication and social welfare, Aino Kapewangolo, said at the training session yesterday that fighting poverty is fundamentally about promoting human rights, human dignity and social justice, thereby ensuring that people have access to food, water, shelter, clothing and other basic services.

“Therefore, I thank the Office of the Governor and the entire team for your prompt actions to ensure that we bring changes to the lives of our people as we fight this war against hunger and poverty. I want to call upon each and every one present here, including the food bank street committee, to be poverty foot soldiers who join efforts and hands with the government in rooting out poverty from our homes and nation,”she stated.

Kapewangolo further noted that she is happy to announce that they completed other training programmes in the Kunene, Kavango West, Kavango East and the Ohangwena regions.

Zambezi regional governor Lawrence Sampofu said in a speech read on his behalf by his special adviser, Ignatius Nkunga, that the trainees must regard this as a national programme by putting personal interests aside, and spearhead the interests of the nation.

“This does not only apply to street committee members, but to all stakeholders who will be involved in this programme to ensure that national duties are carried out as such. The aim is to reach the destitute, and fight poverty in the country. Let the beneficiaries be beneficiaries according to the set standards, and let us not create stories of partiality,” he stressed.

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