Poverty in kenya is extreme

[KenyanPlato]

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This my messenger...A mother in agony that she can only feed her kids once a day

[KenyanPlato]

I am running a self funded scholarship. I had offered 100k just to help parents pay a fee here and there. I have spent 200k coz the need is so much..messages like this really get me sad.

[RV Heavy Hitter!]

It has always been like that in Kenya since time immemorial for the lazy and those that want free stuff, but a lot of Kenyans con people hard, especially those in Majuu get conned easily by lazy Kenyans. Food in Kenya is now cheaper than at any time since independence, especially in my village, and hoping the same way in most Kenyan villages. Kenya is an uneven country because in Uasin Gishu, in Kericho and Bomet, cabbage is under 3 shillings, Sukuma is under 10 shillings, and Unga is under 80 shillings.
Since you don't understand Kale, the millionaire Gen Z farmer from minute 16:30 is verifying the price of cabbage is 2 shillings, and the cost of food is cheaper than ever. No one complains of hunger in Kenya unless lazy people who don't want to farm, or even spend 50 shillings buying about 25 cabbages and boiling them and consuming them with big cheap ugali! The reason the government is investing in modern markets and networks is to reduce these inequalities where local farmers can sell their produce and urban people with no farms can buy at affordable prices. In Kenya, prices of produce change from location to location even within 5 kilometers. You can literally buy cabbage for 2 shillings in one village and move 10 kilometers and sell it for 10 shillings or 20 shillings, and so on. You can go 200 kilometers to Lovington Green, leafy suburbs, and sell it for 70 shillings, like the way my cousin does weekly!

[Georgesoros]

I continue to find a few kids so that they can at least have secondary education.
Meanwhile the govt is trying to kidnap them, Go figure!!!

[KenyanPlato]

It has always been like that in Kenya since time immemorial for the lazy and those that want free stuff, but a lot of Kenyans con people hard, especially those in Majuu get conned easily by lazy Kenyans. Food in Kenya is now cheaper than at any time since independence, especially in my village, and hoping the same way in most Kenyan villages. Kenya is an uneven country because in Uasin Gishu, in Kericho and Bomet, cabbage is under 3 shillings, Sukuma is under 10 shillings, and Unga is under 80 shillings.
Since you don't understand Kale, the millionaire Gen Z farmer from minute 16:30 is verifying the price of cabbage is 2 shillings, and the cost of food is cheaper than ever. No one complains of hunger in Kenya unless lazy people who don't want to farm, or even spend 50 shillings buying about 25 cabbages and boiling them and consuming them with big cheap ugali! The reason the government is investing in modern markets and networks is to reduce these inequalities where local farmers can sell their produce and urban people with no farms can buy at affordable prices. In Kenya, prices of produce change from location to location even within 5 kilometers. You can literally buy cabbage for 2 shillings in one village and move 10 kilometers and sell it for 10 shillings or 20 shillings, and so on. You can go 200 kilometers to Lovington Green, leafy suburbs, and sell it for 70 shillings, like the way my cousin does weekly!

You are a moron.. You are one senseless person. You have zero empathy like your brother

[cookie1]

pris stop wasting your maney on this morons. they need to fix their cauntry and stop mbegging for food. the suffering is self infricted, onry they can cure their misery. brue tick these mofos


 

I am running a self funded scholarship. I had offered 100k just to help parents pay a fee here and there. I have spent 200k coz the need is so much..messages like this really get me sad.

[RV Heavy Hitter!]

You can't be soft on lazy people because you will injure them in the long term. The best way to help needy person who ask for money is to let him/her suffer slowly for months until they realizes, 'ONLY I CAN GET ME OUT.' Another way is to loan them money, especially if they are not family. On family members, you have the duty to help them, but with the expectation of results and prioritizing those that show signs that they want to grow, not crazy folks that drink or have discipline issues. Human beings have to be disciplined, integrity-driven, and consistently nice folk to get my money! Wengine wanakula ujeuri yao!

[KenyanPlato]

You can't be soft on lazy people because you will injure them in the long term. The best way to help needy person who ask for money is to let him/her suffer slowly for months until they realizes, 'ONLY I CAN GET ME OUT.' Another way is to loan them money, especially if they are not family. On family members, you have the duty to help them, but with the expectation of results and prioritizing those that show signs that they want to grow, not crazy folks that drink or have discipline issues. Human beings have to be disciplined, integrity-driven, and consistently nice folk to get my money! Wengine wanakula ujeuri yao!

I won't I am doing it coz I want to help. I am not obsessed about money. It doesn't drive me. If it did I would right now be in kenya chilling

[Kadudu]

RV H H is an imbecile. Scorning peasants just because he is privileged. How many people in Kenya have the chance to go sell cabbages in Lavington?

RV H H's clansmen are busy looting state coffers and he is telling us how akina Ruto and Sudis of this world are enterprising. When did these guys ever work in the private industry to earn the billions they now show off? Ok at least Sudi was at one time a makanga.

You are a moron.. You are one senseless person. You have zero empathy like your brother

Most kalenjins men are like him lazy. You can tell jamaa kikuyu wife is the one working while he sits at home scratching his shrinking monkey balls 😜

[Georgesoros]

pris stop wasting your maney on this morons. they need to fix their cauntry and stop mbegging for food. the suffering is self infricted, onry they can cure their misery. brue tick these mofos


 

I am running a self funded scholarship. I had offered 100k just to help parents pay a fee here and there. I have spent 200k coz the need is so much..messages like this really get me sad.

WHoa!!!
Helping a kid get on their feet is a God given task
At some point I was in the same situation

[KenyanPlato]

pris stop wasting your maney on this morons. they need to fix their cauntry and stop mbegging for food. the suffering is self infricted, onry they can cure their misery. brue tick these mofos


 

I am running a self funded scholarship. I had offered 100k just to help parents pay a fee here and there. I have spent 200k coz the need is so much..messages like this really get me sad.

When I left kenya my dad's friends gave me 250k shs when I left for America. So this me giving back the community to honor this. I plan to spend about 1.5 million in scholarships in the next 10 years I have been lucky in life. I can use this wealth and luck to help a few people along the way

[KenyanPlato]

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[cookie1]

kwiinya needs systemic changes, for every 1 person you assist, another 99 are reft to languish in extreme poverty. and some of those who are lucky to mbreak the cycle of poverty end up in poverty later in life


you may think you are helping them mbut you are hurting the others and perpetuating a cycle of hoperessness, never ending poverty. the onry way out is to fix the gaddam cauntry not throwing mbread crumbs at the poor. this band aid approach is rike pissing in the wind

WHoa!!!
Helping a kid get on their feet is a God given task
At some point I was in the same situation

[Georgesoros]

kwiinya needs systemic changes, for every 1 person you assist, another 99 are reft to languish in extreme poverty. and some of those who are lucky to mbreak the cycle of poverty end up in poverty later in life


you may think you are helping them mbut you are hurting the others and perpetuating a cycle of hoperessness, never ending poverty. the onry way out is to fix the gaddam cauntry not throwing mbread crumbs at the poor. this band aid approach is rike pissing in the wind

WHoa!!!
Helping a kid get on their feet is a God given task
At some point I was in the same situation

Am currently looking at buying a few income generating crops and have my neighnors plant so that they can at least have long term income. Things like apples are a good investment.
The other day I saw office of VP getting an extra 100mil. I was like where did that come from, while investment in infrastructure is DEAD.

[cookie1]

you are still not ngetting it. this are small small band aid sorutions. i'm also against subsistence farming, this is poverty mentarity. you can not erandicate poverty with poverty mentarity

Am currently looking at buying a few income generating crops and have my neighnors plant so that they can at least have long term income. Things like apples are a good investment.
The other day I saw office of VP getting an extra 100mil. I was like where did that come from, while investment in infrastructure is DEAD.

[sema]

Change must start with instituting the rule of law for everyone. without that, the country will remain a 3rd world banana republic.