By ELIZABETH UWIMANA | PROJECT LEADER
Many pregnant women are living in extreme poverty especially after the covid 19 pandemic. Many of these women are single mothers without any access to enterprises that can generate income for them. Our team has been talking to the pregnant in a rural Antenatal clinic and making assessment of their income and at the same time encourage then to join cooperatives. In our communities’ small cooperatives are also known as village savings and loans associations. This is an institution where the communities save and borrow for income generation. The pregnant women have been specifically targeted because most of them are not fully prepared to receive their new born babies because of lack of inadequate income. Cooperatives support their members to engage in income generating activities to uplift their livelihoods. The cooperative associations provide knowledge and services on management, education, family finance, joint purchase and sale, home counselling and evaluation to members. To protect disadvantaged small members, the cooperatives provide fund raising funds to support stagnant enterprises. 30 pregnant women have been able to join cooperatives in the last two months. They will get involved in mushroom growing, vegetable growing, and rabbit rearing. A few of them will also take up learning how to make crafts and tailoring. One of the successes of the cooperative has been the simplicity of investments in the same cooperative to improve services to members. Cooperatives facilitate access to market and support members in case of bad harvests. Profits are reinvested or redistributed to benefit the producers. We thank all our supporters for this incredible input and we hope to see these poor women get out of extreme poverty.
By GEOFFREY ANGUYO | PROJECT LEADER
By GEOFFREY ANGUYO | PROJECT LEADER
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