Namibia: Extension Workers Take Health to Kunene Communities

IT TAKES no less than a five-hour drive over rough terrain with 4x4s to reach the outlying cattle post Ozondombo, about 100 kilometres from Opuwo town in the Kunene Region.

The cattle post is right in the middle of a sandy riverbed where a community of Ovahimba dug out waterholes more than a metre deep to draw preciously scarce water for their livestock in the dry season.

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