Over 3,000 women members of the Great Lakes Foundation International will converge in Kisumu this week to deliberate on their affairs.
The foundation’s executive director Bishop Phoebe Onyango says the women will attend a three-day workshop at Arya primary school Tuesday 25.
Bishop Onyango said the women will be taken through entrepreneurial training among other issues pertaining women empowerment and elevation of their status in society.
She said they are in partnership with Maendeleo ya Wanawake organization that will source for experts to teach women.
“We have enough experts and women must be ready to learn and implemented what they will be taught back in their homes,” she said.
Addressing the press at Salem Ministries in Obunga on Monday ahead of the start of the conference, Bishop Onyango said they are also expecting approximately 600 widows to attend the meeting.
She said the conference will include lawyers who will provide the widows with information about inheritance processes claiming that most widows have been kicked out of their homes.
Bishop Onyango said land ownership can give women collateral to access bank loans and excel in agriculture.
“I encourage widows to grab this opportunity and be able to ask questions regarding property inheritance after their husbands death,” she said.
She said the foundation has been in existence for the last four years and has previously assisted women by giving them access to solar power.