Engineering News reports that youth employment organisation Lulaway's social impact division, Lulalab Foundation, has developed a youth employment initiative that trains youths to assemble, install and maintain gravity-fed solar geysers made from recycled materials in informal settlements.  

The pilot phase of the Letsatsi Water Project led to 30 households in the informal settlement of Hopefield, in Soweto, having these geysers installed.  The project creates sustainable employment and provides sustainable and free hot water to disadvantaged communities.  "By training youth to assemble, install and maintain solar geysers across these households, the youth gain an income and increase their employability. By using recycled materials that can easily be sourced, these geysers can be produced in large numbers at an affordable cost, thus providing our communities with warm water for washing," said Lulalab Foundation CEO Errol Freeman.  “With the successful execution of the pilot project, the second phase will be implemented to scale the project to transform sanitary conditions in informal settlements and upskill the youth and create micro-entrepreneurs. Our next step is to secure corporate social investment so youth and communities can get the benefit of this initiative,” Freeman edded.

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