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Kusini Water Is Looking for the Next Water Champions to Change Lives

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Kusini Water is calling on unemployed and entrepreneurial community members, particularly women, youth, and people with disabilities, to apply for the 2026 Water Champions Programme.

The Kusini Water Champions Programme gives technical training to 30 young people, primarily unemployed women to gain water technical skills and NQF accreditation in the basics of water technology and treatment. Candidates that excel will have the opportunity to join Kusini Water as community operators or get finance to start and run their own water kiosk in their own community.

We’re now joined by the 2024 Water Champion from Ermelo, Zamanguni Phakathi to tell us more about how this programme addressed the water challenges in her community.
5 Feb English South Africa Business News

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