Namibia: Deserted Children Receive Food

Following an article in last Thursday's New Era which reported on the plight of a 17-year-old girl who looks after her two younger siblings, many readers touched by the children's plight have donated food and blankets.

The teenage girl now has to raise her two siblings after their mother last September unceremoniously packed her bags and left without saying where she was going, and the children do not know where their father is.

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