400 Sarafu (about 4 USD) will feed a CHVs and her family for a day and enable her to support the community more. Sarafu can also be used for

Communities can support each other and keep vital food systems and trade alive using a blockchain based vouchers system (Community Inclusion Currencies) acce...

With unstable food systems and deteriorating markets and supply chains, knowing how to target aid is crucial to providing relief and buildin

Even when you have no money you are not poor. Building a Public Registry for Community Currencies.

Giving people a medium of exchange can save lives. With blockchain based Community Inclusion Currencies communities can support themselves in times of crisis...

In the last 30 days we have had 3015 users making at least 1 trade. For a volume of 2,336,655 Tokens (~23k USD equivalent of goods and services traded) … tho...

Could the IMF and Commercial banks learn from women in rural Kenya how to create a decentralized and de-risked (transparently 100% backed) c

This shows us that the presence of Sarafu stabilizes the economic system, working as a buffer in the months when the national currency is sc

These may sound like small improvements, but because of them our current, 8000+ and growing, users will be able to trade and create CICs to

How do you have a proper checkers tournament when no one can pay the entry fees? Jacob the organizer saw an opportunity. His neighbors in several rural villa...

While Community Inclusion Currencies (CICs) have been shown to increase local trade they can also be a vehicle for collective share holding and impact invest...

With every transaction being logged anonymously on a public blockchain we have unprecedented insight into what living below the poverty line means in rural a...

The reserve behind these tokens, the actual aid funding, was about $2.5k USD). This means that $2,500 USD of Aid funds created 10,000 tokens

By exploring this space and enabling leverage we can open the door to truly decentralized financial services. If credit can be safely issued

Rarely in development work do you see an intervention that sprouts its own two legs and starts running across the country without donor fund

Sarafu stands at the fore-front of digital community currencies offering novel ways to learn about the inner workings of local exchange syst

"Community Currencies have enabled food insecure communities to sustainably feed themselves post Red Cross support" - Mwanamuna Sw

So far, after roughly 6 months of piloting we've witnessed 40,000 blockchain transactions! So what does that actually mean?

So far this year, after roughly 6 months of piloting we've witnessed 40,000 transactions! 4,065 Kenyans representing families living below

Responding to Refugee Crisis This is the current and biggest humanitarian global crisis in our lifetimes and we all need to play a part. "We are now witnessi...