Aloe Issue 66 • August - September 2019 KATUTURA OLD AGE HOME OFFICIALLY WATER ALERT REGISTERED WITH MOHSS Windhoek’s water consumption is alarming. During this severe water scarcity extra caution to save water is required. 102% 100% 16 September 2019 Allowance (474 383m3) Consumption (102%) This weekly water watch WE NEED TO is available on L-R: His Worship, Cllr. Muesee Kazapua holding the registration certificate for the Katutura Old Age Home with Ms. Sabina Naomi Jacobs, Control Social Worker at the Ministry of Health and Social Services /cityofwindhoek SAVE WATER! On 13 August 2019, the Katutura Old Age now the Social and Youth Development Home received its certificate of registration Division, the operational responsibility of from the Ministry of Health and Social Katutura Old Age Home came back to the Services. The home is now registered City of Windhoek under the management as a legal entity in terms of the Aged of an elected management board IN THIS ISSUE Persons Act, Act 81 of 1967, enabling it to consisting of various professionals from KATUTURA OLD AGE HOME OFFICIALLY operate officially by caring for the elderly different institutions with expertise in elderly REGISTERED BY MOHSS in our community. Katutura Old Age Home care, and two City councillors. CITY OF WINDHOEK INTEGRATES SOCIAL MEDIA belongs to the City of Windhoek and will INTO ITS COMMUNICATION STRATEGY remain property of the City. Speaking at the occasion of handing over the registration certificate, His Worship, Cllr THE CITY OF WINDHOEK AND THE CITY OF The old age home went through various Muesee Kazapua reiterated that in line SUZHOU SIGN A COOPERATION AGREEMENT phases of transformation since the early of the City’s vision of becoming a SMART MEN SHOULD BE THE AGENTS OF POSITIVE 60s, when it was utilised as a residence for and Caring City, it is our belief that the CHANGE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES teachers who needed accommodation responsibility of caring for an older person in Katutura. During the 80s, the house was is a shared responsibility and its success BUSINESS REGISTRATION - HOW TO donated to the Voluntary Family Care depends on the combined efforts by all Welfare Organisation with the financial stakeholders. He commended individuals, CITY OF WINDHOEK TO HOST A BOYS support of the Dutch Reformed Church community organisations, religious AND GIRLS LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE TO to manage the home. The main aim has institutions and the business community EMPOWER THE YOUTH always been to promote and support who voluntary contributed in various forms CITY OF WINDHOEK CONDUCTING NEXT the well-being of older persons in the PHASE OF THE COMMUNITY RISK ASSESSMENT community. With the establishment of the Continue on Page 3 Community Development Division in 2005, IMPLEMENTATION OF PHASE 2 OF THE FIVE YEAR ELECTRIFICATION PLAN Visit our website: www.cityofwindhoek.org.na . AND MUCH MORE E-mail: [email protected] Our Values: Teamwork | Customer Focus | Communication | Fairness and Equity | Integrity 2 CITY OF WINDHOEK INTEGRATES SOCIAL MEDIA INTO ITS COMMUNICATION STRATEGY Harold Ndevamona Akwenye The City of Windhoek has recognised the will also help in sharing Manager: Corporate Communications, importance of harnessing social media as information our quickly, especially part of its ongoing communication and about service interruptions such as Marketing & Public Participation public relations efforts as many Windhoek water, electricity and other important residents join social media sites and use notices. Dear esteemed readers of the Aloe, I them regularly to communicate. In an effort Join in the conversation by following us am delighted to bring you the August to make the City’s online presence more on our social media platforms: – September edition of the Aloe. responsive, prompt and interactive, the City of Windhoek has joined the trend Facebook: Cityofwindhoek In this edition, we bring you some of businesses who employ fulltime staff highlights of the events that took place in to manage the organisation’s online Instagram: cowmunicipality platforms. the past months. Windhoek continued to Twitter: cowmunicipality This will help the City understand, in real- attract international friends as we signed time, what residents are saying about Linkedin: cowmunicipality the friendship agreement with the City of our services, answer their questions and Suzhou in China. The two cities agreed listen to their feedback. The platforms Our website: www.cityofwindhoek.org.na to cooperate in various areas. In ensuring the cleanliness of Windhoek, sources remain under extreme pressure, of the Aloe, please allow me to share one we will join the Office of the Governor with the dam levels dropping to critically of my favourite water-saving tips with you: and Khomas Regional Council for the low levels and the City of Windhoek National Clean-Up Campaign this currently abstracting from our emergency Wash your fruits and vegetables in a pot of coming Saturday, 21 September 2019. source, the Windhoek aquifer, at an water! Instead of washing your delicious We should all subscribe to the notion unsustainable rate. Therefore, we are vegetables under a running tap, fill a pot that a clean environment is a all urged to appreciate this life-giving, instead. Not only will you save a good healthy environment, and thus I scarce natural resource, and ensure that amount of water, but the water in the pot encourage all of us to participate in we make every drop count. can also be reused to water your plants. this noble initiative of ensuring our In wishing you a pleasant read of this edition Until next month – stay water wise! City's cleanliness. While on environment issues, when it The Aloe is produced by the Corporate Compiled by: Lydia Amutenya comes to the water situation, a lot of Communications, Marketing & Public External Communications awareness continues to be created Participation Division in the Office of Officer (PRO) through the City’s water-saving the Chief Executive Officer. The public Editor: Harold N Akwenye Manager: Corporate campaign since the unfortunate is welcome to make constructive declaration of a severe water scarcity in Communication, submissions via the Editor’s Column, and Marketing & Public May 2019. We have been concentrating submissions should be forwarded to the Participation on households, schools, and industries following address. Design & Layout: Gerhard Groenewald to manage and reduce their water IEC Material Developer (CEO) consumption and I’m happy to report that we’ve seen some good progress If you wish to make comments, suggestions, Printed by: Department of HCCS on the water-saving front, where a contributions or advertise in the Aloe, Contributor(s): Dieter Tolke commendable 17 per cent saving was send an e-mail to communication@ Priscilla Mponyo recorded for the season. However, we windhoekcc.org.na or via post to PO Box Lydia Shifa should be mindful of the fact that water 59, Windhoek. Botha Ellis E-mail: [email protected] /cityofwindhoek/cityofwindhoek /cowmunicipality/cowmunicipality /cowmunicipality/cowmunicipality /cowmunicipality/cowmunicipality www.cityofwindhoek.org.na 3 Continued from Page 1 that is responsive to the needs of our continue to monitor the operation of the senior citizens in line with Government’s house to ensure that it is still operating as to the Katutura Old Age Home over the Harambee Prosperity Plan and the per the approved conditions. The old age years. City of Windhoek Transformational home has a maximum accommodation Strategic Plan 2017-2022”, said Mayor capacity of 30 rooms. The City of Windhoek wishes to Kazapua. emphasise the importance of providing To ensure that the home remains accommodation for the elderly that Ms Sabina Jacobs, Control Social Worker sustainable, reliable and able to meet the is tailored to respond to their specific at the Ministry of Health and Social needs of senior citizens in our community, needs. Many older people need Services (MHSS), while handing over irrespective of gender or ethnic group, the proper shelter. “In our community, we the registration certificate, expressed mayor called on all stakeholders to rally witness older people who are abused, satisfaction with the standard of the home, their continuous support towards making neglected or exploited, often by their and applauded the City of Windhoek for Katutura Old Age Home a conducive relatives. It is therefore essential that doing a great job. She explained that place to live. we provide a social protection system as part of the requirements, MoHSS will L-R: Ms Lydia Amutenya, Corporate Communication Officer at the City City officials with residents of the Katutura Old Age Home. of Windhoek, speaking to Mr Harold Blunden, one of the residents at the Katutura Old Age Home. Mr Harold Blunden, who is 65 years old, has with the treatment at home. “We are well fed pay very little for the support we are receiving been residing at Katutura Old Age Home for the here, cleaning is proper, and the environment here and thus I would recommend this house to past two years and expressed his satisfaction is conducive for us. I have no complaints as we others who might be in need,” he said. THE CITY OF WINDHOEK AND THE CITY OF SUZHOU SIGN A COOPERATION AGREEMENT On the 3 September 2019, the City Geingob, visited President Xi Jinping of a working programme that will ensure the of Windhoek signed a friendship city China in 2018 and made a decision implementation of specific projects under agreement with the City of Suzhou in the to strengthen the Namibia-China the agreed areas of cooperation. People’s Republic of China, aimed at comprehensive partnership at all levels enhancing mutual understanding and of the two governments. As a result of friendship between the Chinese and friendly consultations between the two Namibian people and consolidate and cities, it culminated in the signing of develop friendly cooperation between a Letter of in Intent by the two cities in the two cities.