Thu, 11 May 2017 10:48:47 +0000 By ANNIE ZULU MANY widows in Zambia, especially in rural areas, have taken up farming as a way of supporting their children’s education. Chaka Mbewe, a 50-year-old woman from Chongwe district, is one such person. She lost her husband years back and had to depend on farming to cater for the four children the husband left behind. She has a four and a half acres of land on which she grows maize and groundnuts. She also rears a few goats and pigs. Ms Mbewe said farming was the only thing she could do to support her children’s education, but several challenges such as lack of fertilizer, traction services and others made it difficult for her to succeed. Generally, rural communities lack lots of opportunities including income generating activities for women to take advantage of. The effect of this is the constant migration of young females from rural to […]
