Africa-Press – Namibia. SWAPO Kavango East regional coordinator Ottillie Shinduvi has called on local and international companies to focus on tangible community projects when carrying out their corporate social responsibilities.
These include building shelter for the poor and improving sanitation to restore human dignity.
Shinduvi said this during the commemoration of International Human Rights Day and Namibia Women’s Day at Rundu over the weekend .
Shinduvi urged privileged individuals and local and international companies to focus on tangible community projects when carrying out corporate social responsibilities.
“Homelessness, landlessness, unemployment and poverty are some of the major challenges the people are facing. Because of these factors, many people are living in extreme poverty. I, therefore, call upon the government to use the Namibian Constitution and other existing laws and policies to tackle poverty,” said Shinduvi.
The regional coordinator encouraged the government to partner with relevant stakeholders in the private sector to address the challenges Namibians face.
Shinduvi added that the commemoration of International Human Rights Day serves as a day to thank those making a difference in their communities and societies, providing basic needs such as shelter, water, food, health and education to restore the dignity of people in the commuinity.
International Human Rights Day is commemorated on 10 December annually to mark the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
Namibian Women’s Day is commemorated on the same day to mark the events of 10 December 1959, when the apartheid government of South Africa, in their brutal efforts to continue segregating Namibian people, set out to forcefully relocate the indigenous people from the Old Location in Windhoek, today’s Hochland Park area, to Katutura, where settlement was based on ethnicity.
The people’s resistance to the forceful removal was followed by an aggressive response by the South African forces, leading to the killing of people. Among the casualties was Kakurukaze Mungunda, who was shot and killed by the colonial authorities after she set a police van on fire.
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