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Hope springs for Ngamiland’s most vulnerable children

Giving hope: Children at Lorato House are provided with education, physiotherapy and play activities
Giving hope: Children at Lorato House are provided with education, physiotherapy and play activities

The young children of Ngamiland, a district whose residents are ranked among the country’s poorest, have a home to go to when they find themselves in times of trouble.

The last study on poverty at the district level in the country found that Ngamiland East and West had poverty incidences ranging between 21% and 33%, meaning between one in five and one in three people in the two areas respectively were classified as poor.

Earlier this year, a pioneering report by Statistics Botswana and UNICEF found that children in the tourism heartland in the North West were amongst the poorest in the country with inadequate access to nutrition, health, housing and education.

Editor's Comment
Tana project a welcome development

Whilst the project received mixed reactions from members of the public, the project is indeed a welcome development, which needs to be implemented as soon as possible. Many shared their opinion, with those against the project decrying that if implemented, it will kill the already struggling public transport industry.Many countries around the world have state-run public transport, and those who have travelled to such countries will give testimony...

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