{"id":239943,"date":"2019-01-31T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T08:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=239943"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T08:44:03","slug":"oshakati-family-left-homeless-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=239943","title":{"rendered":"Oshakati family left homeless after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_240075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 945px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Page-5-3rd-story-31-Jan-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240075\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Page-5-3rd-story-31-Jan-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Oshakati family left homeless after fire\" width=\"945\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Page-5-3rd-story-31-Jan-2019.jpg 945w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Page-5-3rd-story-31-Jan-2019-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Page-5-3rd-story-31-Jan-2019-768x472.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hopeless: Nangula Kakololo, 46, and her daughter next to their burnt shack. _Photo: Maria David<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maria David<\/p>\n<p>A FAMILY of six in the Oshakati West constituency was literally left without a proof over their heads for five days after a fire gutted their shack on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the family, Nangula Kakololo, 46, stated that they only got visited by the Councillor of their constituency, Andreas Johannes,\u00a0on Tuesday morning and were given a bag of Omahangu to keep them going for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Johannes visit, Kakololo said, some individuals and family members offered them a helping hand by also providing them with food items, tents and blankets.<\/p>\n<p>The fire destroyed the shack around 15H00, after the family\u2019s 4-year-old child lit fire matches.<\/p>\n<p>Although the adults from the house insist that they were in the vicinity of their shack, they said that they were only alerted of the fire when someone saw a smoke coming from inside their home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI then rushed to the scene with a small bucket of water, but I could not contain the fire as it was already at the door,\u201d said Kakololo.<\/p>\n<p>The family says that the local fire brigade was called, but failed to extinguish the fire as the water tank went empty.<\/p>\n<p>Family members lost all their belongings in the fire and they are now in dire need of clothing and bedding.<\/p>\n<p>Oshakati Town Council officials, who visited the family on Thursday, have promised to offer assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The family will be sleeping in two tents until they rebuild their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria David A FAMILY of six in the Oshakati West constituency was literally left without a proof over their heads for five days after a fire gutted their shack on Thursday afternoon. The head of the family, Nangula Kakololo, 46, stated that they only got visited by the Councillor of their constituency, Andreas Johannes,\u00a0on Tuesday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":240075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oshakati family left homeless after fire - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A FAMILY of six in the Oshakati West constituency was literally left without a proof over their heads for five days after a fire gutted their shack on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=239943\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oshakati family left homeless after fire - 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