Technology Makes Cash Transfers Safer

 

In the slums of Kenya's capital, residents and aid groups are using new technology to send and receive money. Irene Okoth and her five children have been living on 50 cents a day in Nairobi's Korogocho settlement. That is what she earns recycling garbage from the nearby dump. But now, her family will be getting some help from an aid group called Concern Worldwide International, through its "urban livelihoods" program. And Okoth will not have to travel to a bank or an aid center to get it. The money will be put directly into her hands through a mobile telephone system called M-PESA, introduced in Kenya in 2007. read on: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Technology-Makes-Cash-Transfers-Safer-in-Kenya-132262383.html