Placido Hilukilwa
THE flood Disaster Risk Committee in the Oshana Region is pleading with Good Samaritans to step forward with donations to the flood victims.
According to chief regional officer Teopolina Hamutumwa, the flood has so far destroyed 49 houses and left 300 people with no place to sleep and who are in need of assistance.
“The Disaster Risk Committee in Oshana is hereby pleading with all stakeholders and business community to join hands and lend a help to the flood victims by making donations,” she said before enumerating some of the items that are needed urgently: food, firewood, cosmetics, tents, mosquito nets, canoes/boats, chemicals to kill mosquito lava, water purification tablets/sachets, sand bags, water tanks, mobile toilets, blankets and mattresses, reflective jackets for officials, and construction services to fix roads.
Information on donation procedures can be obtained from the head of the emergency centre in the region, Jonas Kapenda, at 081 127 0990.
