Lesotho: Women farmers get mobile phone know-how
JOHANNESBURG: Access to mobiles phones has transformed the lives of rural women farmers boosting income and expanding knowledge, a pilot study in Lesotho has found.
“Ever Upwardly Mobile”: How do cellphones benefit vulnerable people? © Wahenga
Three years ago, Evodia Matobo, then 62, a small-scale poultry farmer in Lesotho's rural lowlands, was stacking plastic containers to feed her chickens. Now she talks about "feeders, agricultural shows, workshops, experts."
The moment that set her on the road to change for the better was when she clasped a mobile phone for the very first time, and "felt like a teenager; going back to life".
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