One hundred widows in Kitui Central subcounty have befitted from goats donated by the Goat Foundation, to address poverty and drought.
The widows took home two goats, a male and a female.
The event dubbed ‘Giving hope by giving goats’ was held at the CDF grounds in Kitui on Saturday.
The foundation's gesture is pegged on the principle of cause capitalism where a profit organization chooses an NGO as a true sustainable partner.
Steve Down, the CEO of the Goat Foundation and Financially Fit company said a better future for Kenya and Africa lies in empowering low-income and middle-income households to improve their cash flow.
Through climate-smart agriculture, the initiative offers goat rearing knowledge as a scalable choice of livelihood and income generation in arid and semi-arid areas.
This is because of their drought-resistant nature, short gestation period and low-cost maintenance in rearing.
Ann Musau, the chief project of Cost companies at Financially Fit said the foundation was founded last year and over 450 widows across six counties have benefitted.
Musau said they are targeting to reach 10 million widows with 20 million goats across East Africa by 2025.
“I urge other companies making profits to join hands through cause capitalism and help the needy in the society,” she said.
Kitui Central MP, Makali Mulu who attended the event urged the widows to take care of the goats and they can donate the offspring to other widows in the society.
Makali said widows and orphans should be taken care of.
Beneficiary Titi Wambua, a widow, said after her husband’s death two years ago, life has been tough as she has been the sole breadwinner of her family.
She said the goats will help her through milk production and manure, among other benefits.
Lydia Mwaka, another beneficiary who has been widowed for 22 years said she was doing goat farming but due to harsh economic times, she sold all her goats.
Mwaka promised to keep the two goats she had received.
Margret Mulwa said the goats will keep her engaged and busy.
This, she said, will help her stay away from the bad company in her village.
She said the goats will help her to educate her children and use the manure while farming.
Edited by Kiilu Damaris
