KEN/04/142 - Small-scale sheep rearing project to empower poor women

Objective: To create employment and provide income by sheep rearing, in order to improve food security and living conditions of the ‘Wetereri Women Group’.

Background: The members of the ‘Wetereri Women Group’ are marginalized, landless, unemployed women, who live below poverty level. The sheep rearing project will improve the living standards of the beneficiaries and help to generate income by selling milk (part of the

Use of Funds: The funds will be used to purchase 30 crossbred sheep (incl. transport costs); fencing the land where the sheep will be kept; feed and disease control. Three meetings and two seminars will be held to train the women in modern practices of sheep

Beneficiaries: 25