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Empowerment loans helping women power businesses

Women from various wards in Uasin Gishu County during a consultative forum before receiving cheques from Women Enterprises Fund in Eldoret. [File, Standard]

In February 1994, Lucy Mbugua started a small business preparing and selling fermented porridge to various customers. She invested Sh250, used to buy cassava, maize and sorghum, which she mixed and ground into flour.

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