Migori county first lady Hellen Obaado has said she is ready to empowered women through chicken keeping project.
Mrs Obado who is also a didicated farmer promised to helpwomen in the county to boost their source of income
She said that the poultry programme is targeting more than 30, 000 women in SACCOs in the 40 wards, where she will deliver an incubator to each SACCO to boost chicken production.
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Apart from the poultry project, Mrs Obado has also come up with shoe distributing programme where more than 10,000 pupils and locals, mostly the elderly from poor background across the county, have benefitted.
“The poultry project will empower women in the county. We are going to give the poultry to women who are in SACCOs. We want to make sure every ward has a SACCO,” she said.
However Mrs obado also advised the women not only to go for the poultry project but also to get in to othe activities that will see them sustain their families and hence the society as a whole.