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Ruth Mwangi
- Mar 8, 2016
- 2 min
Super-Market Super-Currency
Hundreds and hundreds of settlers in Nairobi's Kawangware informal settlement will soon benefit from access to low priced goods cooperativley stocked by the Gatina Business Organization (GBO) and sold in Community Currency. This supermarket will be one of a kind as it will allow customers to buy goods using both Kenyan Shillings and Sarafu-Credit. Members of GBO have had a series of meetings to deliberate ways in which they can start, manage and run a small supermarket to enc
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Robin Gerbaux
- Jun 10, 2015
- 2 min
Kibera's Lindi-Pesa Gaining Momentum
June 6th 2015 was bound to be a typical morning in Kibera - but Saturday morning, the inhabitants of Kibera, the biggest slum of Nairobi, saw their daily routine disturbed by the sound of children, tamtam, klaxons and a megaphone when a vibrant and empowered group marched through the streets, cheering and distributing flyers about something called “Lindi-Pesa“. The march was organized by the Lindi Business Network to raise awareness in the community of Kibera about Lindi-Pesa
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Will Ruddick
- Sep 25, 2014
- 1 min
Gatina-Pesa Launch Prep
The Gatina Business Organization is busy preparing for the community currency's official launch on October 11th. Children from the community are preparing songs and dances while a group of local youth are preparing dramas. Gatina-Pesa membership has surpassed an initial 100 local prosumers including: schools, baby care centers, beans, spices, shoes, internet cafes, clothes, barbers, salons, flour, tailors, fruit, vegetables, soap, entertainment, cooked foods, photography, fis
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Will Ruddick
- Aug 29, 2014
- 1 min
Hon. Paul Simba Arati MP Dagoretti - North
Nairobi's Dagoretti North MP. Hon. Paul Simba Arati will be attending the launch of Gatina-Pesa in October. Besides support from local chiefs, having the interest of the area MP means a lot in terms of political endorsement for the first sister currency to Bangla-Pesa in Kenya. It's not often that a community realizes they have a wealth of untapped supply and demand for local goods and services and can create their own medium of exchange to match them. With Bangla-Pesa having
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Will Ruddick
- Jul 21, 2014
- 1 min
Nairobi Bangla-Pesa Making Strides
Two settlements in Nairobi are racing to create their own Bangla-Pesa exchange networks. Kawangware and Kangemi groups are already near the minimum of 100 business members to begin their programs. Last weekend two business owners from Bangladesh came to Nairobi to teach nearly 100 locals how they use Bangla-Pesa. There was a great discussion and a lot of hope that before the end of this year Nairobi will have their own program. This program is being partially supported by Nye
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