Over 100 women from Kajiado County are set to benefit from a 5-day training and capacity building workshop on commercialization of beadwork.
The workshop, conducted by the Ushanga Kenya Initiative in partnership with the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF), is aimed at empowering women from pastoral communities to convert their traditional beadwork and art into marketable commodities.
Speaking in Oloirien, Kajiado West during the official launch of the training, Culture and Heritage Principal Secretary Ummi Bashir said capacity building aims at empowering pastoralist women by transforming their traditional beadwork into an income generating venture and a source of sustainable livelihood, in line with the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda.
Bashir emphasized the importance of empowering women economically to enable them to become financially independent.
