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No begging bowl for Kitui women

Emaciated livestock, wilting crops, swills of dust, dry riverbeds and dams and hungry faces is what characterises most parts of Ukambani.

But in a shift from tradition, a women group in Mwingi, Kitui County is rewriting the script of Ukambani.

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