The Kansas City-based credit union investment CUSO CNBS said it will host an African intern who one day aspires to lead his country's central bank.

Christopher Hamera, a 25-year-old college student from Malawi, will spend 12 months at CNBS for the educational position. He is majoring in economics at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe.

Despite being the fifth-poorest nation in the world, Malawi has a robust credit union system; Sylvester Kadzola, president/CEO of Malawi's savings and credit cooperatives trade association, is a tenured World Council of Credit Unions board member and supports the internship program, CNBS said in a release.

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