Young Water Solutions Young Water Fellowship 2017 for young leaders from developing countries – Belgium (Funded)

Application Deadline: August 9th 2017

Young Water Solutions exists to address these barriers, and is strongly committed to empower young people in developing countries by helping them implement their own water projects in their communities, through the provision of technical and financial support. After successful implementation of a series of youth-led field projects across Africa and Asia, Young Water Solutions is proud to bring together its know how into one flagship program, the Young Water Fellowship.

The Young Water Fellowship aims to empower in its first edition ten young leaders from developing countries to implement water projects in their communities, by offering them an intensive training program, seed funding grants for their project, and mentoring support by senior level experts. This program will bring about young community leaders capable of successfully designing and implementing sustainable and inclusive water projects that significantly improve living conditions in their communities, while contributing to the achievement of SDG #6 (water and sanitation for all). In accordance with Young Water Solutions’ DNA, the program’s conceptual design is scalable and replicable, with the ambition to create sustainable impact.

Program goals

The general goal of this program is to empower young people in developing countries to lead water projects to address water supply, sanitation & hygiene (WASH) issues; and water pollution and scarcity at the local level, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal #6.

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Benefits:

Training