Mkushi women empowered
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Mkushi women
Mkushi, April 14, 2023, ZANIS—Government has empowered women in Mkushi district, in Central province, with soft loans under the village bank scheme.
Mkushi District Community Development Officer Priscilla Mangowani has disclosed to ZANIS that 175 women entrepreneurs have received loans under the department’s village bank loan scheme, within a period of 12 months.
Mrs. Mangowani notes that the beneficiaries are mainly from Mkushi Central, Chalata and Nkumbi community development sub-centers.
She says that although the principal loans involved varied amongst the beneficiaries, K80, 000 was the gross amount funded towards catering for the beneficiaries on the programme.
She said that the department was involved in rolling out technical expertise and enterprise skills for the beneficiaries.
Mrs. Mangowani further mentioned that the department will not relent in activities of sensitizing on the benefits of this programme in all the communities of this district.
She added that the monitoring aspect done on the programme’s impact and performance of beneficiaries would also be carried out consistently.
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