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By Kamundia Muriithi Winas Savings and Credit Co-operative Society Limited, formerly Embu Teachers Sacco Limited has rolled out elaborate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes targeted at the needy and disadvantaged in society. The Society aims at improving the social-economic welfare of residents in Embu County by putting a smile on their faces “We like giving…
By Wesley Ken. Kimisitu Sacco Ltd has launched the Makao Halisi Loan, a product which seeks to address the housing gap by enabling its members own homes. Through its investment arm – Kimisitu Investment Company Limited, the initiative is part of its larger objective of enabling members own affordable and decent housing within the shortest…
County Senior Assistant Commissioner for Co-operatives (SACC) Nathan Mukhweso (pictured) has called on Co-operative Societies in the area to conduct their businesses in accordance with the Co-operative Societies Act. Mukhweso regretted that some Co-operative Societies were not working within their core mandate as Saccos, marketers, Sugar cane growers, Multipurpose or Savings/Credit Societies and threatened to…
Hundreds of artists drawn from various areas within the County have come together to form a Sacco to assist them expand their businesses. Laikipia Artists Savings and Credit Cooperative Society LTD (LCA Sacco) also seeks to promote youth talents to eradicate poverty by mobilizing locally available resources for investment. Speaking at the inaugural meeting at…
By Stephen Makabila The Government has made a clarion call to Saccos in the country to introduce youth friendly products to win over young people, who form majority of the Kenyan population, into joining saving cooperatives. Commissioner of Co-operative, Philip Gichuki said some of the current products and services offered by Saccos were not attractive…
