I owe my being to Kuisebmond
KNOWLEDGE KATTI
I want to begin by thanking the community of Kuisebmond for shaping my future.
I appreciate you all for the support and allowing me and my team to help recently with food parcels, but more importantly, the presence of the volunteers who participated in collecting data in order to make an informed decision that led to the food distribution.
It's been heart-warming to see how our community has come together and share in the little I could provide.
As we navigate our way through this coronavirus pandemic, I'm happy that we came back to assist our community, approximately 2 000 people.
This was done while ensuring the safety of our staff, volunteers and the beneficiaries.
Stone-cold desperate
It's also sad to know that we have so many people going to sleep without food in Namibia.
Many of our young people are stone-cold desperate because of a lack of work, low wages, escalating rent and no benefits. They're surrounded on all sides by pressure and it is our responsibility as responsible citizens to unite and come up with everlasting solutions that include job creation, among many others, without sacrificing the dignity of our people.
I want to take this opportunity to also call on the private sector to come up with solutions instead of some hiding behind greed and politics of patronage while the people are suffering. Of course, there are many factors to be considered when scrutinising what led to the current socio-economic challenges, which are now exacerbated by the Covid-19 scourge.
Complex, but soluble
The solutions of all these factors are complex, but soluble. Demonising government is definitely not part of a solution.
And until or unless Namibians of goodwill concede that there is a role for both government and the private sector to play in bringing about long-term solutions, and that the best path for economic health is a cooperative partnership between both entities, then the amelioration of tensions that are damaging our economic recovery will not be forthcoming, and further decline appears inevitable.
In the meantime, we will continue to motivate more companies to step up and help our nation.
* Last weekend businessman Knowledge Katti donated food items to about 2 000 residents of Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay, where he was born and bred.
I want to begin by thanking the community of Kuisebmond for shaping my future.
I appreciate you all for the support and allowing me and my team to help recently with food parcels, but more importantly, the presence of the volunteers who participated in collecting data in order to make an informed decision that led to the food distribution.
It's been heart-warming to see how our community has come together and share in the little I could provide.
As we navigate our way through this coronavirus pandemic, I'm happy that we came back to assist our community, approximately 2 000 people.
This was done while ensuring the safety of our staff, volunteers and the beneficiaries.
Stone-cold desperate
It's also sad to know that we have so many people going to sleep without food in Namibia.
Many of our young people are stone-cold desperate because of a lack of work, low wages, escalating rent and no benefits. They're surrounded on all sides by pressure and it is our responsibility as responsible citizens to unite and come up with everlasting solutions that include job creation, among many others, without sacrificing the dignity of our people.
I want to take this opportunity to also call on the private sector to come up with solutions instead of some hiding behind greed and politics of patronage while the people are suffering. Of course, there are many factors to be considered when scrutinising what led to the current socio-economic challenges, which are now exacerbated by the Covid-19 scourge.
Complex, but soluble
The solutions of all these factors are complex, but soluble. Demonising government is definitely not part of a solution.
And until or unless Namibians of goodwill concede that there is a role for both government and the private sector to play in bringing about long-term solutions, and that the best path for economic health is a cooperative partnership between both entities, then the amelioration of tensions that are damaging our economic recovery will not be forthcoming, and further decline appears inevitable.
In the meantime, we will continue to motivate more companies to step up and help our nation.
* Last weekend businessman Knowledge Katti donated food items to about 2 000 residents of Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay, where he was born and bred.
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