{"id":198151,"date":"2025-05-15T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-eu-invests-n1-million-to-support-local-crafters-in-khomas-and-zambezi-regions\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:19:13","slug":"namibia-eu-invests-n1-million-to-support-local-crafters-in-khomas-and-zambezi-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-eu-invests-n1-million-to-support-local-crafters-in-khomas-and-zambezi-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: EU Invests N$1 Million to Support Local Crafters in Khomas and Zambezi Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The European Union (EU) has committed N$1 million to support local crafters in the Khomas and Zambezi regions through training and business development initiatives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The union held workshops in Windhoek from 28 to 30 April and 6 to 8 May this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">EU spokesperson Twaku Kayofa says the workshops gave artisans hands-on experience in turning their ideas into market-ready products, like jewellery, beadwork and corporate gifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;They took steps to grow their businesses and sharpen their skills through&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505150181.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union (EU) has committed N$1 million to support local crafters in the Khomas and Zambezi regions through training and business development initiatives. The union held workshops in Windhoek from 28 to 30 April and 6 to 8 May this year. EU spokesperson Twaku Kayofa says the workshops gave artisans hands-on experience in turning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,12855,10151,14927,7823,5118,4706,724,257,6897,254,6096,7392],"class_list":["post-198151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crafters","tag-invests","tag-khomas","tag-local","tag-million","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-regions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-zambezi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}