The Keetmanshoop municipality handed over food parcels to the elderly at the southern town on Friday.<\/p>\n
The initiative forms part of the municipality’s annual support programme, which aims to alleviate household food insecurity among the senior citizens.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the event, Keetmanshoop mayor Melody Swartbooi said the purpose of the programme is to give back to the elderly as a small token of appreciation.<\/p>\n
“This programme is not to say just take and go on with your life, but it is to show genuine support to the senior citizens.”<\/p>\n
She said the programme targets strictly qualifying elders, particularly those registered with the municipality from 2024 to date.<\/p>\n
“This is to ensure that the contributions reach those mostly in need,” she explained.<\/p>\n
Swartbooi further said the number of identified beneficiaries currently stands between 1 700 and 1 800 elderly residents, who will all be catered for in two phases with the second phase scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n
“The number of beneficiaries is quite large, and we have identified around 1 700 to 1 800 elderly residents, and that is why the distribution is handled into two phases with reasonable numbers to guarantee justness and dignity for the intended recipients,” she said.<\/p>\n
Each parcel contains a packet of 500g of sugar, tea bags, and a 750ml bottle of cooking oil among other food items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Keetmanshoop municipality handed over food parcels to the elderly at the southern town on Friday. The initiative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[63,4338,83,265,262,4340,102,96,261,267,264,263,266,4339],"class_list":{"0":"post-5701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-aid-and-assistance","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-current-events","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-food-and-agriculture","14":"tag-namibia","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-southern-africa","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-trade","20":"tag-travel","21":"tag-urban-issues-and-habitation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}