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==Oniihandi Village==

Oniihandi is a village situated 10km from Ondangwa in the Northern region of Namibia.It constitute of a greater portion of the total geographical area of the Oshana region.It is well known that the majority of the Oshindonga speaking people resides in Oniihandi village.90% of the villagers  speaks Oshindonga and only 10% speaks Oshikwanyama. Oniihandi occupies a broad place of low relief averaging 1 100m above sea level. The village is traversed by shallow water courses called Oshanas that originate several hundred kilometres North of Namibian boarder, in Angola.This oshanas in this village is the life –blood of the village. Across this village, mean rainfall increases from west (less than 250mm) to east (more than 450mm).About 99% of annual rain falls in summer, from October to April. The mean monthly temperature range from 26 Celsius in December to 17 Celsius in July. Sunrise commences: 06:37 and sunset is at 18:51, not taking into account daylight saving time. Oniihandi village is characterized by dwellings, school, churches, hospitals, and other facilities operated by a religious group for the purpose of providing charitable services and to propagate religion. It has two natural holes or small depression that contains water, used by villagers and animals especially during the dry seasons.This village is engaged in crop farming e.g Mahangu, Traditional beans, nuts and pumpkins and animal farming which brings in food for the daily consumption. The Oniihandi village homes are build from mud,some from cement, wood and some roofing with the dry grass.

References 1.^www.alan.org.na/ondangwa/ondex.html 2.^www.maplandia.com/namibia/oshana/ondangwa