Namibia is experiencing its worst drought in decades and the President has declared a state of emergency. By now nearly 800,000 people are affected and in urgent need of support. At the initiation of Bishop Kameeta, of the Lutheran Churches in Namibia, has organized several groups to focus their main response on paying a cash grant to four communities across the country for a period of six months.
Groups involved include LFW (Lutheran World Federation), LUCSA (Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa), TARA (Theological Institute for Advocacy & Research in Africa), and the Act-Alliance. LUCSA-TARA will implement the cash response to the drought. TARA and the LWF emergency co-ordinator for Southern Africa recently travelled through Namibia to assess the situation on the ground and to plan the cash response.
If you would like to donate to the effort, go to the following link (also providing impressions of the extreme situation many households in Namibia are facing): https://www.lutheranworld.org/content/emergency-drought-angola-and-namibia
More images of the current situations are online: https://www.cdhaarmann.com/Pictures/Drought%20Relief%20Namibia%20July%202013/index.html
. In one of the inteA recently abandoned cattle postrviews we learned that due to a lack of grazing the herders had moved on. However, there is little hope to find grazing anywhere within reach. Location: 50km north of Sesfontein in the Kunene region. Photo: Dirk Haarmann
