Erongo Governor's Cup 2019, 1-3 March 2019 HentiesBay Main Sports Stadium.
Erongo Region is looking forward to yet another edition of the Governor's cup, annual event geared towards development of youth in sport at the grassroots level.
The historic 5th Edition of the Governor's cup is scheduled for the weekend of 1st - 3rd of March 2019 in the coastal town of Hentiesbay, Arandis constituency, under the theme: Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game
The aim of the tournament is to unearth raw soccer and netball talent in the region as well as to identify talented U/20 players within Erongo to represent the region at the regional and national levels, especially at the annual Namibian Newspaper Cup.
This soccer bonanza is called the Governor's Cup, in recognition of the fundamental role played by the office of the Governor towards the successful organizing and subsequent hosting of the maiden tournament in 2013, Karibib, which was the first ever Governor's cup in Namibia.
The Cup is sponsored by the office of the Governor and Erongo Regional Council in collaboration with Erongo Football League, Ministry of Sport, Youth & National service, LA's and the Local organising committee (from the host constituency) under the stewardship of the Governor's cup organizing committee.
Secondary sponsors of this year's edition includes, amongst others; Bannerman Resources, Erongo Red & Santam.
You are ail invited to witness this soccer & netball bonanza, the annual biggest on the region's calendar. This marks not only a celebration of sport and youth but the deveropment and social change in our region as a whole.
As we know, sports has propensity to bring about positive development and be an economic driver.
Hence, the cup is annually rotated throughout all constituencies to ensure that all areas of the region are represented and developed through sports. This event is more than sport; it signifies the uniting of people from ail walks of life in our region for a worthy cause and subsequently develops and creates a platform for Sports in rural areas.
All the greatest athtetes of our time started from somewhere. They started with someone believing and showing up for them. It is once again my call to stand up for the undiscovered, underprivileged raw gifted player in the remote settlement of Utuseb, for that talented young goalkeeper with his corner's stones that the builders have rejected in Otjimbingwe, for the young player who has had a passion for the ball since the tender age of two in the dusty, narrow roads of Spitzkoppe.
Let's go out in numbers for the dream of the young and talented.
I thank you all, in advance, for attending the 5th Edition of The Governor's cup.
~Hon. C. Mutjavikua
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This dry and dusty sand is all that remains of Kariamakuju Kauta's maize and vegetable field. She now has just one week's supply of maize remaining.
After that she's not sure how she will find food to feed her family.
SOUNDBITE (Zemba)Kariamakuju Kauta 55 years old:
We are hungry, that is the impact of the drought. That is what we can see. People are hungry. People are dying.
Kariamakuju's dire situation is the result of the worst drought Namibia has experienced in 30 years. An estimated 780 000 Namibians or a third of the population are now severely or moderately food insecure.
In May, the government declared an emergency committing around 20 million USD to provide food and water to affected people.
SOUNDBITE (English) Hellen Likanda, Deputy Director, Directorate Disaster Risk Management:
All the thirteen regions have been affected with this drought. There is a shortage of water for animals and humans. There is a shortage of food - people did not harvest enough food in all the regions.
Aid agencies have also stepped in to help. But as numbers of affected communities continue to rise funding gaps are widening. UNICEF needs 7.4 million USD to help the estimated 109,000 children at risk of malnutrition.
SOUNDBITE (English) Micaela Marques de Sousa, UNICEF Namibia Representative:
We already know that Namibia is in a vulnerable situation in terms of nutrition, for example. 29 percent in the country are stunted and stunting is irreversible it means 29 percent of these children do not do well in school, it means 29% of these children fall out of the system and even out of the so-called potential citizens of the country so children and women are bearing the brunt of the drought.
In response, UNICEF is scaling up water, sanitation and hygiene facilities as well as nutrition education and infant feeding activities.
Early detection of malnutrition is critical during an emergency and already health extension workers based in remote communities are monitoring children and working with health centres to get affected children the treatment they need.
Despite immediate drought response plans underway -- it is becoming clear that this region which is prone to erratic weather conditions must consider the long-term impact of climate change.
SOUNDBITE (English) Myo-Zin Nyunt, Chief of Health and Nutrition, Namibia, UNICEF:
Namibia has been experiencing the cyclical challenges of a drought and floods. So the government as well as the international community should really work hands in hands to really prevent the further deterioration of the climate change problem resulting in natural disasters.
Mbete Tjiposa, an elder in her Ovahimba community has seen her fair share of droughts.
But two consecutive years of no rain in her village in Kunene region is taking its toll.
Livestock has died, cattle prices have dropped and the men in the village have had walked far to find grazing for what herds they have left.
SOUNDBITE (Otjihimba) Mbete Tjiposa:
From previous years, we never suffered from drought because we used to drink milk and eat whatever we wanted to. Now the drought is really affecting us.
She boils a watery maize porridge -- her only meal for the day.
The government food rations have not yet arrived and she must support several families on her meager pension.
As in years before, the community is willing to wait out the drought.
But it remains to be seen if they will have
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