Author Topic: Moonki Cash tranfers via Mpesa doing wonders in NEP; Pundit was right  (Read 1296 times)

Offline Globalcitizen12

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http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/In-northwest-Kenya--drought-brings-more-girls-to-school/539546-3879918-x21wpx/index.html

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Re: Moonki Cash tranfers via Mpesa doing wonders in NEP; Pundit was right
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2017, 04:00:07 PM »
What can one really do with Sh. 2700 per household per per month?   Actually think of that, instead of just going along with parts of what you want to be a feel-good story.  And 38,000 people? Remind me: how many millions are starving right now?  Is the national government still begging for help from the "international community", saying it has neither enough money nor enough food to feed its population? If so, both government and the starving need to be told of the wonders of MPESA; I'm not the one who needs to hear it.

Anyways ... I notice that while cropping the article, in order to make it suit your point, you left out this:

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Hard-hit herder families are instead selling drought-threatened livestock and using the money

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Some (families) have been selling the surviving livestock to pay school fees ...

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Re: Moonki Cash tranfers via Mpesa doing wonders in NEP; Pundit was right
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2017, 04:36:25 PM »
A small good is being done we just need "to appeal to donors to give more"..It is a gift we cannot count a gifted goat teeth.It is not polite to do so

We need to throw another 4 billion at this problem I