Africa’s 2nd largest Social Entrepreneurship Conference was held at Tangaza University College in Nairobi. The two day conference Established in 2017, aimed...

Grassroots Economics Foundation has been at the forefront of empowering bottom-of-the-pyramid communities in Kenya by use of Sarafu Network; a network of Com...

Caption: Mama Evelin (right) in Bangladesh, Mombasa learns to trade her Bangla-Pesa using the Bancor Wallet; taught by Ruth Ngau of Grassroots Economics (lef...

Grassroots Economics Director, Caroline Dama, visited the White House on Wednesday as a finalist in the WomensConnect USAID program Our aim is to empower wom...

The 5th installment of the Village Market Simulator series is now online! You can find it on YouTube or in the 'Simulations' section of our MOOC. This episod...

We are very happy to announce that today, for the first time in our organizational history, the community currency members of the Nairobi programs registered...

As a way to celebrate we are happy to share two stories from our network members! Bevelyne Ombayo is a single mother, who lives in Lindi Slums, Kibera.Runnin...

Love School is one of the schools that has enabled children to acquire education by allowing them to pay part of their school fees and tuition fees using Co...

Empowering women is a great ways to boast our economy . This however doesn't come without facing challenges of Illitracy among most members. Many of the...

Sarafu-Credit: empowering strong women who never stop fighting for their families wellbeing We are joining together to celebrate mothers’ lives. It is no sec...

Since beginning in the field of “development” over 10 years ago every time I visit a new community I find there is a lack of understanding between the concep...

The Miyani area in Kenya has been identified by Red Cross and the World Food Program as food insecure for over 5 years. Red Cross along with WFP have been pr...

I am a French researcher involved in an MSc Agricultural Development at the University of Copenhagen. I am very interested in Community Currency, especially ...

Dear Friends and Stakeholders, In just three years, Grassroots Economics grew from a community group working to help improve living conditions for residents ...

Grassroots Economics has opened up its archives of design and implementation to students world wide through a hands-on, practical course in Kenya. After havi...

Election violence broke out in areas across Kenya this year and was concentrate in the lowest income areas. There is still a lot of uncertainty and much of K...

The Schumacher Center for a New Economics has supported us with inspiration and advice since we began with Eco-Pesa in 2010. Before starting our first curren...

Grassroots Economics works with communities across Kenya to develop systems that allow parents to pay for their children's education using their goods and se...

For the first three months I started working as a volunteer. I am able to get in touch with different business individuals in all the three business networks...

Business development using community currency Being a business development coordinator whose main objective is to see communities’ assets put into good use, ...