EMPOWERMENT

Margaret holding her tittle deed.

Grassroot women have been empowered despite cultural practices and beliefs,gender based violences and politics.Through community land and property watchdog group and open forums women are able to know their rights and also helping husbands and relatives to understand that women can own or inherit properties and assets.
Margret a  married grassroot woman and a mother of five children,shows a smile of joy holding a tittle deed with her name in it,as she narrates her story.She tells how she involved her husband in on-going communty activities on empowerment,"every meeting i attended i updated my husband and he had no problems when i was to attend meeting workshops and seminars".
She continues telling her story,"one day my husband requested me to take him to visit a friend and my surprise was the place we went was the land registrar office and that where i learnt that my husband had registered a piece of land with my name and i was there to sign the tittle deed".Later her husband explained to her how he understood all the updates she had been updating him and that  how she owns the tittle deed.
w So, empowerment should start from home then to the community through sharing of information and knowledge.