First Lady Continues Grace Mugabe's Empowerment Programme, Donates 3 000 Chicks

First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has continued an empowerment programme started by former first lady Grace Mugabe and has donated 3 000 day-old chicks to women in Masvingo.

Mnangagwa promised to donate more chicks to women across Masvingo Province. All the 26 constituencies across Masvingo received about 128 chicks under the first batch of the chicken farming project. Zanu-PF Women’s League deputy secretary for Health and Child Care Namatirai Chivanga yesterday paid tribute to the First Lady for the donation. Said Chivanga:

We are happy with what our Mother has done for us after donating an initial batch of 3 000 chicks that we have since handed over to women in all the 26 constituencies in Masvingo. The chicken rearing project is part of the First Lady’s vision to make sure women are empowered and do not just wait for their husbands to give them something. There is a lot of excitement because some of the beneficiaries will be able to send their children to school with money generated from the project initiated by the First Lady.

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