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Namibia: San children survive with food from dustbins – News

Namibia: San children survive with food from dustbins – News

Africa Links 24 with Anna Shinana
Published on 2025-02-26 17:00:00

Kafita Silas (12) and his community in the Palasa informal settlement face extreme poverty, relying on food scraps, government aid, and the generosity of strangers to survive.

The almost-teen wakes up each morning in his mother’s plastic shack, where he shares cramped quarters with six other people.

They live in a shared epundo, or clan, at Palasa at Eenhana in the Ohangwena region.

Kafita puts on his barely clean grey school pants and a tattered blue shirt, and washes his face…

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