Dar es Salaam, June 2 -- Vice-President Dr. Philip Mpango has said that between July 2022 and April this year, the government disbursed a total of 30.9bn/- to 5,120 women groups in 184 Councils countrywide.

The funds were provided with the aim of improving income and eliminate poverty amongst women and men in the country.

In his speech read on his behalf by the Minister of Community Development, Gender, Women and Special Groups, Dr Doroth Gwajima, the VP said that the funds were provided through the 2018 local government authority finance law.

The VP was invited to officiate the launching of the ANAWEZA Gender program, were she sent Dr Gwajima to represent him.

“Through the 2018 local government finance law, all counci...