By Surihe Gaomas
WINDHOEK
A group of disadvantaged rural women can look forward to learning an innovative technique in dressmaking from Ghana early next year.
A donation from the Embassy of Indonesia in Namibia will ensure just that.
The Embassy recently donated N$10 000 to the Organization for the Empowerment of Widows/Widowers and Orphans of HIV/AIDS in Namibia (OEWONA).
The donation was received by the Patron of OEWONA, First Lady Penehupifo Pohamba, at the handover ceremony at the organisation’s headquarters in Katutura last week.
It all started when a group of the organization’s National Executive Committee visited well-established businesswomen in Ghana early this year.
Upon their return, it was noted that there was an opportunity for Ghanaian businesswomen in the dressmaking industry to teach disadvantaged Namibian women in OEWONA.
The Indonesian donation will support the OEWONA programme in 2008, when six Ghanaians are expected to come to Namibia to train rural women and other vulnerable groups in several projects such as Bastik (tie and dye) clothing design, advanced tailoring and home economics.
Officially handing over the cheque, Chargǟ