Staff Reporter
WALVIS BAY – Erongo Marine Enterprises spread Christmas cheer among close to 600 elders in the Hardap, Otjozondjupa and Kunene regions with food parcels that were handed out by the company’s Managing Director, Dr Martha Uumati.
In addition, the fishing company with horse mackerel quotas donated canned fish worth N$100,000 to the Offices of the Governors of the Hardap and Otjozondjupa.
The food hampers contained canned fish, maize meal flour, sugar, and tea and body lotion. The canned fish donation will be used for various food security projects in the respective regions as deemed appropriate by the governors of the beneficiary regions.
“During this time of the year, it is our turn to give back to those less fortunate in our country. Nothing makes me happier to see so many smiles on the faces of our elderly,” Dr Uumati said. She added that it is important not to forget the contribution the elderly have made in paving the way for our personal successes or Namibia’s hard-won freedom.
“I am privileged to be able to share this day with the elderly, not only to give back, but also to be humbled by our elderly and pay tribute to the road they have paved for us. I believe that to make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do,” she said.
Erongo Marine Enterprises is one of the leading horse mackerel fishing companies in Namibia. The donations were made possible through Erongo Marine’s corporate social development trust, the Arechanab Community Trust. The events in Hardap and Otjozondjupa regions were coordinated through Hon Esme Isaack
and Hon Otto Ipinge, governors of the respective regions. In Khorixas, the food hamper donations formed part of the Welwitschia Community Festival organised by the Khorixas Town Council and community members.