NGO promotes green fund project in Kitui

The melia volkensii seedling being watered at the Better Globe Forestry station in Kiambere on the border of Embu and Kitui Counties. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

A non-governmental organisation is implementing a green fund project in the county.

Community Road Empowerment (CORE), funded by Japan International Forestry Promotion and Cooperation Centre, has trained Tuthi Mwala and Kavukua women's groups in Mutomo, Kitui South and Unyaa, Kitui Central constituencies on growing melia volkensii, a tree species locally known as Mukau, to help fight drought and poverty.