Namibia gets €60m for schools, water

Brussels – Europe announced Monday a €61.65m aid package this year to help Namibia improve schooling and offer drinking water and sanitary facilities to its rural poor.

Though Namibia has Africa’s fifth highest per capita income and is on target for Millennium Development Goals on poverty and literacy, it still has a distance to go on improving schools and health in rural areas, a European Commission document said.

More than one in five Namibians living in rural areas do not have access to drinkable water and more than 86% of rural households lack access to proper sanitation facilitites.

Included in the aid are €42.15m for the education sector and €18m for water and sanitation programmes.

The programme also included funds to bolster governance, notably a parliamentary support programme.

Source: news24.com

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