Government has set aside K700 million for empowering women in the country.
Community Development and Social Services Deputy Minister, Moses Muteteka, has disclosed that the K 700 million would be disbursed through eligible women groups countrywide.
Mr Muteteka, who is currently in Kaputa on a tour of Northern Province, told ZANIS in an interview today that all provinces will benefit from the money allocated.
He said each province will get about K 40 million as empowerment in an effort to alleviate poverty in the country.
The deputy minister said the money is targeted for widows who are vulnerable but viable in the communities.
Mr. Muteteka hoped that the money would help reduce poverty and in turn improve the livelihood of the people.
He named some of the women cooperative groups that are expected to benefit from the money as Mama Mpapa and Chikamuneka in Northern Province among others.
Mr Muteteka urged the beneficiaries to ensure that they put the money to good use, pointing out that he was particularly impressed with women clubs for doing their part in working together.
ZANIS
Yes! Lets support women
You would help the women by making sure that the markets, where they spend most of their time trading, are upgraded. Make sure that the markets have proper sanitation. Cadres are not the only women. And please respect our women by not forcing them to be dancing for politicians at the airports!!!!
Please just increase the grant. k40m per province is a mockery and an insult to women’s intergrity. Women constitute more than 50% of the population and they are the majority of the poor. So this 700m is nothing it should have 700BILLION. Please just keep your money if you do not have plans to solve women’s problems. K40million is nothing dive it by the number of women that are poor- it will come to some negative figure. This is cheap politicking.