Gatundu fighting poverty one cow at a time

Mang’u Progressive Dairy Farmers Chairman Gabriel Karia shows Manager Wambui Njoroge the group’s new milk cooler, which has the capacity to chill 2,000 litres. It was donated to the group by the Kiambu County government. [PHOTO: KAMAU MAICHUHIE]

KIAMBU: November 2014 marked a turning point for a group of men and women from Mitero village in Gatundu North.

Earlier that month, the group had met to brainstorm on economic ventures that would help alleviate the area’s high poverty and unemployment rates.