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Phumani Paper has been training talented crafters across South Africa to produce quality handmade paper and paper products since 2000. Our organization has assisted in the creation of numerous jobs in communities affected by unemployment and HIV/AIDS. Most of the handmade paper crafters are located in rural areas - where few employment and marketing opportunities exist. 

The Phumani Paper National Office is based in Johannesburg and is ideally positioned to create market opportunities for crafters. Phumani Paper supports the small business enterprises by providing access to markets, business skills training and innovative product design and development. Each unit has undergone, and continues to undergo, specifically targeted training to attain the high levels of skill needed to compete within the craft sector on a local and international level.

Phumani Paper is registered as a Section 21 company, to enable the clear definition of its role in creating further capacity for existing projects and their current product ranges, whilst identifying locations for potential new projects, when the existing projects encounter full capacity in production. The ideology is based on maintaining current employment, and identifying future job creation whilst maintaining marketable quality and managing the supply chain for maximum benefit to each and every producer.