More than eleven thousand women in Maputo and Gaza provinces will benefit from the Rural Women Economic Empowerment Project.

This is an initiative of the Society for International Development Cooperation, SOCODEVI, funded by the Government of Canada and will last for 6 years.

The project manager, Artur Perin, said this Thursday that the beneficiaries of the program will be rural women and girls who are members of agricultural associations linked to the National Farmers Union.

Meanwhile, the representative of the National Farmers Union, Inácio Limiha, says he hopes the project will empower farmers to be promoters of their economic development. 

Inácio Limiha, representative of the National Farmers Union, at the launch of the $14 million Rural Women's Economic Empowerment Project, funded by Canada.