Women groups engage themselves in various income generating activities. Beside tree plantations women groups cultivate groundnuts and cowpeas, brew pito and raise pigs. Women groups also grant small loans for their members from their common fund. Groudnut cultivation has been the most succesful activity so far. Groundnuts are either consumed by the families of the members or sold in the market.
Groundnuts bring important addition to family nutrition.
The profit women get from selling the groundnuts and pito are relative small, but women consider it important. Co-operation with groups has been succesful way to involve beneficiaries in project plannig and decision making. Co-operation between groups is likely to increase in the future when common association for all the groups starts to function properly. Seperating women to independent groups has proved to be succesful way to ensure that project benefits equally both women and men. The project has also managed to reach the poorest people of the area.