Turkey assists with drought relief

The Turkish government, through the Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA), has pledged its support to Namibia and has assisted in a number of areas, including with drought relief. This support includes food parcels to families living in Windhoek, Oshakati, Osire, Okahenge and Oshikango, as well as food and milk for the basic nutritional requirements of pupils at People's Primary School at Katutura.Turkey also donated five 10 000-litre water tanks to the Tsandi constituency in the Omusati Region for use by people living at Oluhalu, Amaupa, Okatseidhi East, Iitatu and Ombwata B.TIKA is also in the process of providing support for water and solar energy provision, through drilling a borehole at Nyondo West in Kavango East.This was revealed by Berin Tulun, Turkish ambassador to Namibia, during an interview with Namibian Sun. She emphasised that Turkey strives to be able to provide speedy humanitarian aid to those in need, without discriminating on the basis of race, religion or gender. “TIKA's projects in Namibia mainly focused on various fields such as healthcare, formal and vocational education, training, agricultural development, irrigation, water and sanitation, women empowerment, solar energy, capacity-building, wildlife preservation and humanitarian aid. In this regard, the TIKA Windhoek office has been developing projects in all regions of Namibia for the well-being of all Namibian people,” said Tulun. RelationsShe is also confident that there is political will on both the Turkish and Namibian side to boost relations between the two nations, adding she is doing her very best to expand and diversify these relations.“Namibia may be considered far from sight of Turkey, in distance. However, I should very sincerely say that Namibia is always in our mind. After establishing our diplomatic relations, the Turkish embassy in Windhoek was opened. Turkey now has 42 embassies in Africa. We are waiting to see the Namibian resident embassy in Ankara, along with the 35 embassies from the African continent,” she said. Tulun is also confident that a number of cooperation areas between the two countries will pay off, including a Trade and economic committee meeting and the first meeting of Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group that was held in Windhoek recently.Other interactions include the second round of political consultations that were held in Ankara, which allowed various countries to exchange views on bilateral and multilateral matters.She added that Namibia's health ministry's leadership this year attended the Health Conference and Expo, as well as the sixth Turkish Medical World Congress. jemima@namibiansun.comJEMIMA BEUKES

Turkey assists with drought relief

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