By Agwanda Saye

Over six hundred widows within Siaya County have received free maize seedlings for planting and free tilling of their lands ahead of this planting session courtesy of Kisumu based Christian organization called Salem Ministries.

The overjoyed widows thanked the head of the Salem Ministries Bishop Pheobe Adhiambo Onyango hfor her kind gesture in helping alleviating the poverty within the area.

“We have large tracts of land but seedlings and cost of farming has been our major impediment now that we have been given a shove in regard to the matter we ill be able to sustain ourselves and we will not be queuing for handouts from our leaders” said one widow.

Bishop Onyango said that she had been touched by the widow’s struggles while looking for food sufficiency that is why she was touched and offered to give them free seedlings as well as tilling for them their farms.

“They were incapacitated by finances to purchase seedlings as well as tiling their lands when I asked them why their lands were idle they told me that they did not have money to till as well as buy seedlings and they asked me to assist them and that’s why I offered to do it”Bishop Onyango added.

She added that she will be using her tractor as well as her driver to plough for the said widows their lands and what will remain for the is just to do the planting.

She at the same time called on the area leadership to come in and assist the widows in any way they can so that they sustain themselves.

The area government Provincial administrator Julius Owuor thanked Salem Ministries and Bishop Onyango for her kind gesture saying that the initial pilot project had yielded fruits and was on the right course

“I will get in touch with the area leadership to supplement Bishop Onyango’s efforts in regard to this project, more so the area CDF project” he added.

Meanwhile it was all joy as a group of youths from East Gate Church based in Atlanta Georgia led by their Pastor Geanne Wilde through Salem Mistries Constructed a house at their own expenses for a widow within the same county and even bought two cows for rearing purposely for milk supply.

According to Bishop Onyango, their action was touched by the pathetic condition the old widow lived in and they volunteered to construct for her a house.

“I THANKED THE ALMIGHTY God for seeing me in old age, I now have a roof over my head”,she jumped in joy