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The struggle with many a rigid Logooli cultural practices

  The Logooli community is one of the deeply cultured societies – with near everything supposed to have been done as per custom – to allow another custom to follow. One example is that for a mature man (with a child or more) to be buried, there must be a house structure at home. Another is that a boy must be circumcised and nursed in father land. If maternal family decides to, the boy will have a hard time reconnecting with father people - a dent on his masculinity. There were two children who got burnt to death in a house in Nairobi. The single mother had left for night work. Elders were told that one of the children was Logooli. The other, the woman had sired with someone else. The Logooli family wanted to burry their little one and long discussed the do’s and don’ts. Of a man who died childless and the grave was placed as if he had died as a man with children. It should have been dug on the sides, the grave. A real thorn should have been thrust in his buttocks, his name go...
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Saniaga Mweremi Self Help Group

♠ Saniaga Mweremi Self Help Group
                           Location: Moi's bridge; Likuyani Constituency; Kakamega County
                           Meeting Days: Every Tuesday fortnight
                           Number of members: 40
                           Contacts : 0729536620/ 0726834987


Group Profile
Saniaga Mweremi Self Help group is remembered to have been active from the year 1993. It was Mr. David Mudogo who among others lead the formation of the group as they tried to bring people migrating to the area together for a productive association. It was the time that 'scheme' settlement was increasingly accepted due to land pressure in ancestral locations. It is Mr. Simwa Ben who acted as a treasurer at the time while Mr. Musa Ayodi secretarised.

In the year 2000 there was a slight change of leadership with only Mr. Otwere Stephen becoming the secretary. The group had them made greater advancements in self sustainance by leasing land to plant maize and championing 'sheep' merry-go-round. Sheep were given to members to enable them prosper in their agricultural activities.

In 2013, with increased national need to have youths and women participate and equally benefit from available opportunities, a women group called Saniaga Women Self Help Group was registered with Gladys Benja as the chairperson. It derived initials members from within and aimed to recruit friends and relatives. This did not affect the the normal stream of group functionality because the existing group had been registered as Mweremi Self Help Group. By meeting on the same day and streamlining both group activities, they adopted the umbrella, 'Saniaga Mweremi Self Help Group'.

It is table banking, agrees everyone in the group, that has greatly helped the members save and loan for their own activities. The group looks forwards to rearing dairy goats and securing land for purposes of future growth.

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