The Kalahari Constituency Office on Thursday donated 500 bags of cement and a 10 000 litre water tank to the Nossobville Housing and Development Committee.
The N.dollars 70 000 donation forms part of the constituency office’s social responsibility and is directed towards an initiative driven by the committee to build affordable houses for homeless residents of Nossobville.
Speaking during the handover, Kalahari Constituency Councillor Ignatius Kariseb said the donation signifies a milestone of a bigger dream of seeing the entire Nossobville community in their own homes.
The development committee and the councillor’s office are in discussions with the Gobabis Municipality for the municipal council to allocate land for at least 250 houses.
“From these discussions, the municipal council has agreed to allocate an un-serviced portion of land to the committee in close proximity to existing water infrastructure. This will be done once the committee has been registered as a club and a legal entity,” he explained.
Omaheke Governor Pijoo Nganate lauded the councillor for being pro-active and for being in touch with his community and their needs.
“To be allocated land is not a privilege but a birth right,” he said, adding that the struggle for the independence of Namibia was not only for farming land, but also for residential land.
He, therefore, encouraged regional and local authority councillors to strive towards the betterment of the lives of their communities, which according to the governor starts with the allocation of land.
The chairperson of the Nossobville Housing and Development Committee, Uakisa Kazapua, welcomed the donation, noting that the beginning of the project to acquire land was not easy and what is to come will not be an easy process.
He further said the donated cement will be used to make bricks to be sold and the funds will be used to service the land to be availed by the municipality.