The Kisii University's Institute of Gender Studies Director, Dr. Caren Nyamwange has challenged women from the region to embrace table banking initiative to ensure that they save and borrow money to establish their business ventures instead of depending on their husbands for financial support.
Dr. Nyamwange observed that women's lack of economic empowerment exposed them to Gender-Based Violence(GBV) especially at household levels where their dependence on their husbands to provide for them with all basic needs sometimes led to violence if such demands failed to materialise.
Speaking on Wednesday evening at Kisii Culture hall during the launch of 16-days of activism against GBV, Nyamwange observed that if women were economically empowered, it will be possible to reduce various forms of GBV targeting them both at household levels and in public places.
Nyamwange tipped women on the importance of economically empowering themselves reminding them that it was out of economic empowerment that they will manage to reduce cases of various GBV incidents targeting them in their families and the wider society.
"Aware that lack of economic empowerment among women exposes them to GBV incidents, I am challenging them to pull together their resources through table banking initiative so that they can save and borrow money to finance their business ventures for economic empowerment and self-sustainability," said Nyamwange.