More than 100 women groups in Kwale County have benefited from over  Sh5 million disbursed through the office of the Women Representative.

According to Kwale Women Represenatative Fatuma Masito, the funds will help the different Women groups in sustaining their businesses and activities.

" So far we have disbursed the funds to 140 Women groups, we divided the groups into 5 main groups with each main group getting kshs 200 000."  said Masito.

Adding " My main goal is to ensure that our Women are fully empowered and can sustain their lives"

Masito further called on Women in the county to come together and form groups in order to benefit the different empowerement programmes from her and the government.

"We have several empoweremnt programs in the country but you will only benefit from them when you inare groups and united" se argued.