Waiting 33 years for garbage collection
Sanitation crisis in Windhoek’s informal settlements a ticking time bomb The Smell of rotting food, human waste and smoke hangs in the air at Epandulo, an informal settlement in Windhoek’s Moses //Garoeb constituency. Children run barefoot through pathways of corrugated iron shacks and among piles of uncollected waste dumped in an open space opposite a […] The post Waiting 33 years for garbage collection appeared first on The Namibian .
Sanitation crisis in Windhoek’s informal settlements a ticking time bomb
The Smell of rotting food, human waste and smoke hangs in the air at Epandulo, an informal settlement in Windhoek’s Moses //Garoeb constituency.
Children run barefoot through pathways of corrugated iron shacks and among piles of uncollected waste dumped in an open space opposite a kindergarten.
For parents like Natalia Theofelus, the consequences are visible in their homes.
“Children play there because it is in front of their school. They come back home with diarrhoea, flu, or sometimes vomiting,” she says, calling on the City of Windhoek to urgently develop the community.
For nearly 1 500 residents who call Epandulo home, this is not a temporary inconvenience, but a reality they have endured for 33 years.
‘Epandulo’ means ‘grateful’ in Oshiwambo. However, the residents feel they have little to be grateful for.
While other residents in Windhoek expect the municipality’s garbage truck to collect their waste once a week, Epandulo residents do not have that luxury.
