Country Namibia Constituency Mpungu Constituency Local time Monday 10:34 PM | Region Kavango West Climate BSh | |
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Time zone West Africa Time (UTC+1) Weather 22°C, Wind SE at 11 km/h, 71% Humidity | ||
Mpungu kavango song
Mpungu is a settlement and a former mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society in the Mpungu Constituency in the Kavango West Region in Northern Namibia. It is located ca. 40 km south-west of Nkurenkuru, in the inland, as opposed to other former Finnish mission stations, which were located along the Kavango River. Today a tarred highway from Ovamboland to Kavango connects Mpungu to other places in northern Namibia.
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Map of Mpungu, Namibia
History of Mpungu
The mission station was founded in 1951 by Hellin Elomaa, a nurse, who also founded a small clinic there.
In Mpungu, the Finnish missionaries were also in touch with the local Bushman population.
Mpungu today
Today there is still a health centre in Mpungu, as well as the Himarwa Iithete Senior Secondary School.
References
Mpungu Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA