| Nation
Newspaper - Kinda Women's Group is succeeding beyond
all expectations |
Published: April 19th 2007
The Kinda Women's Group bakery, in Homa Bay District,
Kenya, is now producing 200 loaves of bread, a ton
of cookies and 800 doughnuts a day. The bakery uses
special flour milled from sweet potatoes which have
been fortified with Vitamin A. On average the group
earns Sh115,000 a month; enough to take care of
their own families and several HIV and AIDS patients
as well as orphans. The success of the bakery is
also having an impact on the farmers who are now
growing more of the Vitamin A sweet potato varieties
to meet the demand. FARM-Africa funded the introduction
of the new sweet potato variety through the Maendeleo
Agricultural Technology Fund (MATF). Click the link
to read more about the bakery's success.
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Nation Newspaper
- How the sweet potato has changed one woman's
life
Published: May 2007
Rosemary Awuor and her Kinda Women's Group from
Kenya have set up a bakery that makes bread, cakes
and doughnuts from sweet potato flour. They use
a special variety of sweet potato, fortified with
Vitamin A, boosting household nutrition and improving
family incomes. FARM-Africa funded the project
through the Maendeleo Agricultural Technology
Fund (MATF) and 600 households are now growing
two or three types of the new sweet potato varieties.
Click the link to read Rosemary's story and hear
about the other farmers who are growing and marketing
the new sweet potato.
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Nation Television
feature on Kinda women group
Aired in
March 2007
Early in the year, the success story of the Kinda
Women’s group from the Community Mobilisation
Against Desertification (CMAD) sweet potato project
in Homabay district attracted the attention of
Nation TV station (NTV). The TV station sought
out the group and shot a documentary, which was
screened on 10/03/07 under a special series entitled
“Strength of a woman”.
This was in commemoration of the World Women’s
day celebrated on the 8th
March of every year. Click the image on the right
to view the video.
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