Geita DC calls for bold, job-creating projects from loan recipients
GEITA: GEITA District Commissioner, Mr Hashimu Komba, has urged youth, women and people with disabilities who benefit from council’s loans to come up with project ideas that will bring transformation to their lives and help them to create job opportunities.
Mr Komba made the directives recently during a loan issuance ceremony to 100 groups within the Geita Municipal Council, where he urged the beneficiaries to think big and engage in profitable businesses.
He said the loans were provided basically to empower youth, women and people with special needs to become economically self-reliant and to support the government in tackling the unemployment problem countrywide.
“We need you to come up with projects that will create employment for others. Let’s move away from small projects. We want this money to be used in ways that benefit more people,” he said.
He added: “Create strategic projects that will create more employment and that will also use more local resources so that we can keep on improving people’s lives.”
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Mr Komba directed the Geita Municipal Council to continue prioritising and increasing the loan amounts for well performing groups instead of giving small loans to many groups without tangible benefits.
“It’s better to loan out larger amounts to fewer groups that are engaged in impactful projects with the aim of employing more people, rather than small amounts to many groups that have little community impact,” he said.
The Geita Municipal Council Mayor, Mr Costantine Morandi, said efforts are underway to expand the scope and size of the loans to benefit more eligible people for the broader public benefit.
The Community Development Officer of Geita Municipality, Mr Robert Sungura, stated that a total of 100 groups comprising 503 members among them, 387 women and 117 men have been granted loans totalling 1.22bn/-.
He said 57 women’s groups have been given 550m/-, 38 youth groups 622m/- and five groups of people living with disabilities given 56m/-.
