MUGUMO SELF-HELP GROUP AS SOURCE OF WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT IN KISERIAN PARISH, KENYA
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1999-03
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
This project research examines the efficiency of Mugumo Self-Help Group as source of women
empowerment in all aspects of life particularly economic wise. The study emphasizes on the
importance of making women aware of their poverty in their quest for liberation. The Church
and society are urged to be conscious of women issues so as to take part in promoting women
economically. In this study, collective effort must be made to mobilize women to get united
into groups where they can tackle their common enemy, namely, poverty and helplessness.
The researcher chose to analyse Mugumo Self-Help Group so as to find out how best self-help
groups should be the source of women's empowerment and the way to self-reliance. Women and
men members of Mugumo Self-Help Group were selected randomly with the group They
answered questions during interviews and questionnaires elicited information about Mugumo Self-
Help Group as source of empowering women economically.
It is therefore the hope of the researcher that this piece of work will act as a promoter of women
self-help groups in Kenya and in other parts of Africa.
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MUGUMO SELF-HELP, EMPOWERMENT