WOMEN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Over the past years, women have been viewed as a bad risk or as incompitenet commercial enterprises.They have been unable to access credit for economic empowerment circles.The attempt to address the issue has been encountered by a number of NGO's such as FAULU Kenya,the Kenya Rural Enterprise Program(K-Rep),The Kenya Women Finance Trust (KWTF)They have started lending schemes for small scale enterpreneures who have no tangible securities.The strength of this organisations lies in the friendship and trust that exists among the groups,formerly registered groups and individual members in these groups and individual members in these groups guarantee each other,these have replaced merry go rounds which were very difficult ways of siliciting credit and only and only affected by size of the groups.

Location: MUNICIPALITY DIVISION, KAKAMEGA, KENYA