A group of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nakuru have brought resources together to venture in a 2million agribusiness investment that is aimed at empowering them economically.
Janet Gitonga, the Chairlady of Pipeline Internally Displaced Persons Women Welfare Group told this writer in an interview of Tuesday in pipeline that the group had sought financing from Equity bank to start; poultry, pig and fish farming projects in Gilgil.
“We are determined to prove to the world that survival is inevitable despite our predicament. We have been saving with the bank on a small scale basis for the last two years until we felt that it was time for us to do something more big,” she said.
“These projects will employ us as well as empower us economically. We have received a lot of support from government and Non-Governmental Organizations and they still promise to support us. It is a good gesture and we want to give it a trial,” added the leader.
She said that the fifty member-group has been receiving training from various organizations like SOROPRIMIST, Action Aid and United States International Development Agency (USAID) on social wellbeing, agribusiness and small enterprise management.