Twenty-six schools without water in Oshikoto

NAMPA

2025-04-22

OMUNTELE, 11 APR (NAMPA) - Acting deputy director for Education, Arts and Culture, Thomas Kalimbo. (Photo by: Tomas Gabriel) NAMPA

By Gabriel Tomas
OMUTHIYA, 22 APR (NAMPA) – Twenty-six schools operate without potable water in the Oshikoto Region, the Directorate of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture in the region has reported.
Deputy Director of Programmes and Quality Assurance, Thomas Kalimbo told Nampa in an interview on Tuesday that these schools rely on the Directorate of Rural Water Supply and NamWater to ferry water to the schools.
“Sometimes they...

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