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/ 26 January 2007
The Namibian government has adopted all the right policies to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal Seven on sustainable environmental practices, but its good intentions have floundered at the implementation stage. The country has been doing a lot to set up the appropriate policies and regulations conducive to sustainable environmental development.
The sight of an elderly person caring for children with Aids-related illnesses — and grandchildren who may have been orphaned by the pandemic — has become a common one in Namibia, and the Southern African region as a whole. According to the 2004 <i>Common Country Assessment</i>, grandparents provide care for most orphans under the age of 18 who live in rural areas.