‘No water, no education’

Kunene school without water for five weeks

A Five-week water shortage at Orumana Combined School in the Kunene region has triggered a sanitation crisis, disrupting classes and sparking pupil protests.

The school has been relying on a community borehole after its own borehole stopped pumping water, but has allegedly been denied access to the borehole.

A source at the school says the matter has been reported to both the circuit inspector and the Kunene regional director of education, but no lasting solution has been implemented.

School principal Matti Kaamukulwa this week confirmed that the school is experiencing serious water supply challenges, although he said the interruption had not persisted continuously since the beginning of the term.