Child Sponsor Namibia

Namibia, with its population of 2.567 million (2022), is located in southern Africa and borders the Atlantic Ocean on its west, Angola and Zambia to its north, Botswana to its east and South Africa to its south and east. Namibia came under South African jurisdiction during World War I as a League of Nations mandate territory then as an annexed territory after World War II. South Africa extended its apartheid policy there in 1948. This and other authoritarian South African laws led to general unrest and the nationalist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) started a guerrilla war against South Africa that lasted from 1966 to 1990.Despite its relatively high income, Namibia has a poverty rate of 26.9%, affecting predominately the northern regions of Kavango, Oshikoto, Zambezi, Kunene and Ohangwena.

Frequent droughts and floods affect the country especially in the arid, rural areas of the country leaving 20% of the Namibian population lacking access to food with malnutrition being responsible for the death of at least 6,000 children in Namibia every year. Child sponsor programs in Namibia concentrate on providing care for orphaned and abandoned children, helping with school fees, uniforms and equipment to promote educational participation and improved access to healthcare. Developing AIDS awareness is also seen as essential as, at 13%, the HIV prevalence rate is one of the highest in the entire world and the 25-44 age group accounts for the highest number of HIV infections affecting produtivity and life opportunities for future generations. You can help when your sponsor a child in Namibia.