Cash programme reaches 31 000 women, youths

THE World Food Programme (WFP), in partnership with Dutch Christian Aid, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation, launched an urban cash grants and resilience programme to support vulnerable populations in Bulawayo during the current
famine.

The programme aims to empower women-headed households and youths to start small-scale businesses.

According to Valerie Guarnieri, WFP assistant executive director, the initiative began in 2019 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people lost their jobs and remittances dwindled.

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