Zambezi ‘food basket’ with rice from Korea
Alice Sishango stares down into the pot of rice she’s cooking on the fire. “I’ve just put on this rice, and now it’s turned into pap. What rice has the government given us? We don’t know this rice,” she says. The rice is part of a 5 000-tonne consignment worth N$60 million the government of […] The post Zambezi ‘food basket’ with rice from Korea appeared first on The Namibian .
Alice Sishango stares down into the pot of rice she’s cooking on the fire.
“I’ve just put on this rice, and now it’s turned into pap. What rice has the government given us? We don’t know this rice,” she says.
The rice is part of a 5 000-tonne consignment worth N$60 million the government of South Korea has donated to the Namibian government through the Office of the Prime Minister.
The aim is to feed the country’s drought- and flood-affected households.
Sishango’s household is just one of over 1 700 in the Zambezi region benefiting from the 9 097 bags of rice donated to the region.
She and 56 other people were temporarily relocated to the Ngweze community hall after heavy rains at Katima Mulilo destroyed their homes in March.
Sishango says the rice is “too white”. “Nevertheless, let me cook it; it might be delicious,” she says after recovering from the shock of what happens to the Korean rice when overcooked.
This rice is the one thing preventing her from going to bed on an empty stomach.
