By MN Reporter

Deputy President William Ruto’s wife Rachel Ruto lunched table banking initiative in Migori town last Friday.

Ruto was hosted by Migori Women Representative Dennitah Ghati.

Ghati and Ruto challenged county governments to come up with specific projects aimed at assimilating women in their economic endeavors.

“Devolution gives women opportunity to apply for tenders and service delivery would ‘make devolution government attractive for business,” Ruto said.

She said devolution give authority to create favorable climate for women to conduct businesses without hindrances.

She said her table banking initiative which empowers rural women by imparting entrepreneurial skills and offering financial resources to start up small scale businesses.

Ghati said the initiative under Joyful Women Organization (JOYWO) project seeks to empower Kenyan women economically and enhance house-hold food security among them through supporting their involvement in livelihood projects.

Ghati challenged county leadership to empower women through projects and tenders like town-cleaning, garbage collection, revenue collections among others to fit in the society.

“Women should show interest in applying for the contracts advertised by the county governments and also to raise questions where on budget appropriations for sustainability,” she said.

Table banking is a group funding strategy where members save and borrow immediately from their savings on the table, either in short term or long