{"id":3282,"date":"2022-01-14T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossfirenews.co.ke\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:29:58","slug":"county-to-invest-in-social-sectors-to-improve-livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/county-to-invest-in-social-sectors-to-improve-livelihoods\/","title":{"rendered":"County To Invest In Social Sectors To Improve Livelihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crossfirenews.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0306Projects-1200x630-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3283\" src=\"http:\/\/crossfirenews.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0306Projects-1200x630-1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0306Projects-1200x630-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0306Projects-1200x630-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0306Projects-1200x630-1-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0306Projects-1200x630-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governor Dhadho Godhana\u2019s administration to prioritize projects that will improve the livelihoods of Tana River people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to KNA, Finance and Economic Planning County Executive Committee Member (CECM) Mathew Babwoya revealed that their priority is to complete stalled projects in the health, agriculture, education and, infrastructure sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are sectors that will help us to alleviate poverty and improve the incomes of Tana River people.\u00a0 A small margin of our people are in business, many are farmers and pastoralists, they\u00a0were affected by drought,\u201d said the CECM.<\/p>\n<p>The county wants to improve household economies thus it must invest in social sectors to lessen the burden of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Tana River was one of the counties that were most affected by drought. Some 80,000 people have started to receive a monthly stipend of Ksh3000 from the national government.<\/p>\n<p>Babwoya further said that they have been supporting farmers in value addition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are investing in beehives for honey production. I urge people to invest in cereals not only for subsistence use but for commercial purposes too. We have cooperated with the EU to increase productivity in the milk and fish industries,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Dhadho Godhana\u2019s administration to prioritize projects that will improve the livelihoods of Tana River people. Speaking to KNA, Finance and Economic Planning County Executive Committee Member (CECM) Mathew Babwoya revealed that their priority is to complete stalled projects in the health, agriculture, education and, infrastructure sectors. \u201cThese are sectors that will help us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}