Noordoewer Gets Major Clean-Up - by Wezi Tjaronda
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WINDHOEK - More than 300 school children of E. H. Baard Primary School and some community members turned up to clean the Noordoewer settlement last Saturday.
The clean-up campaign was organised by Collect a Can and its partners Namibia Breweries and 4H Namibia.
Organised under the theme 'Protecting our Beautiful Orange River', the campaign aimed at educating the Noordoewer community to take part in maintaining clean and unpolluted surroundings.
The settlement of Noordower is endowed with rich natural resources including the Orange River, which provides water not only for daily use at the settlement but also large agricultural projects.
The Karas Region, where the settlement is located, is marketed as unpolluted and sensitively protected desert systems, which is home to some of the planet's most unique natural wonders, including the Namib and Kalahari deserts and the Fish River Canyon and the Orange River.
Unfortunately, some waste that should end up in people's bins, find their way into the river.
The campaign stretched from the school and the border post where mainly the children armed with refuse bags, gloves, T-shirts and caps, collected different types of waste including bottles, cans, plastic and paper.
Addressing the pupils before they embarked on the clean-up exercise, Karasburg Constituency Councillor Paulus Ephraim urged the community to maintain clean surroundings, which would in turn attract investment and development to the area.
He said: "If we don't clean up investors won't come and money will also not come."
Ephraim said one of the criteria investors use to select their location of investment is the eco-friendliness of the inhabitants, including what they do to protect their natural resources including water, land and the quality of air they breathe.
He noted that Karas Region in general and Noordoewer in particular, is one of the unique tourist attraction sites in the country contributing to the country's coffers.
"The need for all stakeholders including tourists to be sensitised about our fragile environment and local entrepreneurs to invest in the protection of our environment has never been greater. As we engage ourselves in this exercise, it is imperative to reflect on our patterns of behaviour that increase the level of pollution and litter in our surroundings," he said.
The councillor urged the community to intensify the fight against pollution and litter to become the number one priority, if the people's aspiration of creating harmony between human activities and the environment was to be realised.
"We are all aware that we are dependent on the environment to survive and the other way round is also true - the environment depends on us to survive," he added.
While the country has inspectors who are there to enforce law and order particularly against dumping waste in the river and polluting surroundings, the councillor emphasised that the best policing and law enforcement system is refraining from such harmful practices.
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The clean-up campaign was organised by Collect a Can and its partners Namibia Breweries and 4H Namibia.
Organised under the theme 'Protecting our Beautiful Orange River', the campaign aimed at educating the Noordoewer community to take part in maintaining clean and unpolluted surroundings.
The settlement of Noordower is endowed with rich natural resources including the Orange River, which provides water not only for daily use at the settlement but also large agricultural projects.
The Karas Region, where the settlement is located, is marketed as unpolluted and sensitively protected desert systems, which is home to some of the planet's most unique natural wonders, including the Namib and Kalahari deserts and the Fish River Canyon and the Orange River.
Unfortunately, some waste that should end up in people's bins, find their way into the river.
The campaign stretched from the school and the border post where mainly the children armed with refuse bags, gloves, T-shirts and caps, collected different types of waste including bottles, cans, plastic and paper.
Addressing the pupils before they embarked on the clean-up exercise, Karasburg Constituency Councillor Paulus Ephraim urged the community to maintain clean surroundings, which would in turn attract investment and development to the area.
He said: "If we don't clean up investors won't come and money will also not come."
Ephraim said one of the criteria investors use to select their location of investment is the eco-friendliness of the inhabitants, including what they do to protect their natural resources including water, land and the quality of air they breathe.
He noted that Karas Region in general and Noordoewer in particular, is one of the unique tourist attraction sites in the country contributing to the country's coffers.
"The need for all stakeholders including tourists to be sensitised about our fragile environment and local entrepreneurs to invest in the protection of our environment has never been greater. As we engage ourselves in this exercise, it is imperative to reflect on our patterns of behaviour that increase the level of pollution and litter in our surroundings," he said.
The councillor urged the community to intensify the fight against pollution and litter to become the number one priority, if the people's aspiration of creating harmony between human activities and the environment was to be realised.
"We are all aware that we are dependent on the environment to survive and the other way round is also true - the environment depends on us to survive," he added.
While the country has inspectors who are there to enforce law and order particularly against dumping waste in the river and polluting surroundings, the councillor emphasised that the best policing and law enforcement system is refraining from such harmful practices.
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