The people in DRC still live in tin huts, have no real drinking water, suffer from hunger and most of the children do not have the opportunity to attend a school or get any education. According to latest reports, the population stands at around 400 people in the suburb. Which makes it more amazing how there are some wonderful self help projects originating from the suburb. One of the projects is called “Helping Hands”. This project was founded by a

At the end of 2010, the Dorob National Park was founded in Namibia. The park encompasses the entire 1570 km of the coastline, up to the Skeleton Coast and has now become a protected area. The huge 10754 Million hectares of National protected area is now the largest nature reserve in the whole of Africa. According to reports, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated 2 Million Dollars to the new park. Both are honorary citizens of Namibia and regularly visit

Taken from the “Allgemeine Zeitung”, a dram in Uis  two days ago, lead to two dead people, one murder and one suicide. On Wednesday 16.02.2011, a fight broke out between a gemstone handler and a security guard. The Gemstone handler had bought himself an orange, but after tasting it, he realised that he did not like it and threw it into the trash. The security guard confronted him and said that instead of throwing it into the trash, he could

As reported today in the “Allgemeine Zeitung”, the educational program in the poor township of DRC will be stopped, or at least partly. Since 2004, 30 children who would not have had the chance of any education have been getting schooling at a project in DRC. Now these poor children will be back where they started as the project officially has been put to a halt. Ivanna Iafigliola-Kriner and her husband Mike Kriner were utterly shocked at the news. Germina