{"id":437,"date":"2016-06-29T15:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/?p=437"},"modified":"2016-06-29T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:32:24","slug":"437","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/beverley-and-district\/2016\/06\/29\/437\/","title":{"rendered":"Meru Women\u2019s Garden Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Meru Women\u2019s Garden Project<\/h2>\n<p>Meru District is in Tigania East with a population of 136,000. 90% live in rural areas with HIV\/AIDs prevalent in the region. \u00a0\u00a0Meru Women\u2019s Garden Project will support some of the poorest women-led households in Kenya, and is entirely focussed on providing opportunities to women and girls who may never otherwise be given the chance to earn an income, and gives them status within their community. It fully embraces the three key areas at the heart of SIGBI\u2019s Programme Focus Goals \u2013 Educate, Empower and Enable. Improved food production and education will support women and girls to transform their lives and those of others through a process of cascade learning and mentoring thereby reducing poverty, improving health and increasing employment.<\/p>\n<p>The following data gives a clear indication of the need for this project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>41% of women and girls are grossly or borderline malnourished<\/li>\n<li>43% live below the poverty line of \u00a31 per day, with more in rural areas<\/li>\n<li>55% live a hand to mouth existence in agriculture using methods which degrade the land<\/li>\n<li>93% use local trees for firewood, impacting hugely on deforestation<\/li>\n<li>22% have no formal education<\/li>\n<li>11% complete secondary education<\/li>\n<li>8% achieve minimum levels for literacy compared to 85% in Nairobi<\/li>\n<li>9% achieve minimum levels for numeracy compared to 87% in Nairobi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Meru Women\u2019s Garden Project Meru District is in Tigania East with a population of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meru Women\u2019s Garden Project | News | Blog | Events | SI Beverley and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Beverley and District : Blog &amp; News : Meru Women\u2019s Garden Project : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Beverley and District . 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