Windhoek, Namibia: "This is the first time that I am presiding over a swearing-in ceremony in Namibia, and I feel a tremendous sense of pride, both as an ambassador and as an American," says Dennise Mathieu, new US Ambassador to Namibia.  Read article

A report on "An Assessment of Community Volunteers and Community-Based Health Care Programmes" launched yesterday by the Minister of Health and Social Services, Richard Kamwi, shows that Namibia has a total of 4728 volunteers helping their communities at different levels, and 80% of this represents women participation.  Read article

Windhoek: The Namibia Volunteer-based Organisations Forum (NVOF), comprising national and international volunteer based organisations in Namibia, jointly celebrated International Volunteer Day (IVD) 5 December 2003 in the capital Windhoek with large public attendance.  Read article

A fund to address the unprecedented challenge that HIV/AIDS is posing to the work of the Red Cross and Red Crescent has been launched today by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and represents another step forward in the organization’s efforts to support its own people living with AIDS.  Read article

Windhoek: Nineteen volunteer organizations jointly celebrated the International Volunteer Day (IVD) under the theme of "Combating HIV/AIDS in Namibia through volunteerism" to support the Namibian Government’s work to fight HIV/AIDS and help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  Read article