{"id":225929,"date":"2026-03-04T01:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-youth-needs-n1-8m-for-job-creation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:15:23","slug":"namibia-walvis-youth-needs-n1-8m-for-job-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-youth-needs-n1-8m-for-job-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Walvis Youth Needs N$1.8m for Job Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>A youth-led organisation at Walvis Bay&#8217;s Kuisebmond area is seeking N$1.8 million in investment to expand a project aimed at creating jobs for unemployed young people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Founder Theofelus Hofeni says the We Care Youth Empowerment Project consists of 35 unemployed young people who have formed a group to start income-generating businesses rather than relying on government grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;We are a group of 35 unemployed young people who have united with one vision: to create sustainable employment&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603030651.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>A youth-led organisation at Walvis Bay&#8217;s Kuisebmond area is seeking N$1.8 million in investment to expand a project aimed at creating jobs for unemployed young people. Founder Theofelus Hofeni says the We Care Youth Empowerment Project consists of 35 unemployed young people who have formed a group to start income-generating businesses rather than relying on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225930,"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":[258,256,11743,9679,53814,4706,724,257,254,10438,6276],"class_list":["post-225929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-creation","tag-job","tag-n1-8m","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-walvis","tag-youth"],"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\/225929","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=225929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}