Andara is a village in Mukwe Constituency, Kavango Region, Namibia. Located 200km east of Rundu, it is inhabited primarily by the Hambukushu people. It is the home of the Holy Family Parish, a Roman Catholic mission. The first missionaries arrived in 1909 during the German colonial era but a mission station was only established in 1913 under the leadership of missionary and later Archbishop Joseph Gotthardt.[1] In the 1960s, the Andara Catholic Hospital and a youth hostel were built. The hostel can house up to 130 people.[2]