A women’s group has set aside Sh2.5 million to initiate a water project in a Nakuru estate.
According to the chairlady of Kiamaina Progressive Self-help Group Selina Kimani, her group will embark on a borehole project that will help solve water shortage problems in the area.
Kimani said the borehole water will be piped to a major tank beore being piped to residents. She said the project aims at providing access to clean water for local small scale farmers to be used for irrigation during dry seasons and for domestic use.
She observed that the area lacks tapped water which forces residents in the semi-urban area on the boarders of Nakuru-East and Bahati Constituency to seek for water from local streams which endangers their heath.
She said: “This project has been a long term plan. We are now ready to implement it after seeking for funds from the Women Finance Bank and Women Enterprise Fund. We are hoping to serve more than one hundred families for development projects like irrigation and construction as well as domestic use.”
Kimani has urged local leaders including the area Member of Parliament Kimani Ngunjiri to support her group’s efforts to implement the project that will kick off in December and which will provide employment to the local youth and women.
The group was started in 2006 has 200 members who engage in table banking and small scale commercial farming and business projects.