ROTARY CLUB OF MERU CHANGING LIVES OF THARAKA NITHI SINGLE MOTHERS, ALONGSIDE CONSERVING ENVIRONMENT
Changing lives Kiini tailors during their daily activities at PCEA Kiini Church
By: Denis Mutua
Worth Noting:
- It is a project that has been well received by the beneficiaries for instance Joy Muthoni Njeru who told Mt. Kenya Times that since its establishment; she has not been idle as she used to be and it has also equipped her with relevant experience and skills she can now use to set up her own venture.
- “I thank the Rotary Club of Meru for considering enrolling us in such a project. Since I was recruited, I have been able to acquire useful skills that can help me start my own business and also train others with urge to learn tailoring,’’ she said.
- Kenya Times learnt that currently the group has a tender to make dust coats and school uniforms which is a big boost to their activities.
As a way of boosting and empowering single mothers, Rotary Club of Meru has set up a project identified as Changing Lives Kiini Tailors based at Kiini PCEA church in Maara Constituency in Tharaka Nithi County to help single mothers from the place.
According to Dickson Mugendi a past president of the club, they came up with the plan after realising that the locality has a big number of single mothers who needed assistance to survive economically.
“We started with a group of about 35 women who have so far got requisite skills and we are planning to recruits another contingent once the current group exits,’’ Mugendi said.
Apart from clothes making, the official said they are planning on how the group can start making re-usable sanitary towels to be distributed to schools.
It is a project that has been well received by the beneficiaries for instance Joy Muthoni Njeru who told Mt.Kenya times that since its establishment; she has not been idle as she used to be and it has also equipped her with relevant experience and skills she can now use to set up her own venture.
“I thank the Rotary Club of Meru for considering enrolling us in such a project. Since I was recruited, I have been able to acquire useful skills that can help me start my own business and also train others with urge to learn tailoring,’’ she said.
Mt.Kenya Times learnt that currently the group has a tender to make dust coats and school uniforms which is a big boost to their activities.
They however asked for more materials to enable them carry on with their activities, and also said their business would bloom more if they get a ready market to sell a variety of products they make.
The Rotary Club of Meru is also currently carrying out an exercise to preserve environment by guarding water springs sources in the county through planting of trees around them.
The Club’s president Salome Ntinyari said it is only by planting trees that the current climate change being experienced can be reversed.
She was speaking at Kamaronda springs in Mitheru ward where the group planted 100 trees at the spring source in an effort to preserve it from destructors.
The Club comprising of mainly youths from different counties and of different professions asked residents to take it as their responsibility to preserve the environment for the sake of generations to come.
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