Sarafu.Network
Grassroots Economics' is building and supporting systems that empower communities to create their own financial systems based on local goods and services in regional markets that are built from the ground up. Sarafu Network is the premier Economic Commons platform in Kenya.
Distributed ledger technology provides underlying protocols to secure user accounts and USSD technology enables any cell phone (even without internet) to have access. Read about our Open source software and blockchain.
Sarafu-Network
- The Sarafu-Network platform is supported by service fees and humanitarian orgs and allows anyone to access the network.
- The more that vouchers on Sarafu-Network circulate the more it builds resilient local economies and support vulnerable households.
- Gradual expiration of vouchers encourage users to keep the economy moving. These expired vouchers are renewed and collected by voucher issuers to support reissuance and keep a stable supply.
- Anonymous Voucher trade data can give Humanitarian organizations a way to identify weak spots for capacity building and support communities for their measurable impacts.
- Note that Voucher issuers are required to redeem vouchers for their goods or services not Kenyan shillings.
- Sarafu (SRF or 'Currency' in Kiswahili) is a voucher issued by Grassroots Economics Foundation. The total Sarafu supply in 2022 is close to 2 Million.
- SRF can be redeemed as payment for services from Grassroots Economics such as creating your own voucher as well as training.
- In Kenya dial *384*96# (Safaricom) *483*46# (Airtel) to open an account and talk with our team +254-(0)757628885.
- GE also grants SRF to people and groups for their impacts in supporting the network. There is no cost to join.
Create your own Voucher and build your own Community Inclusion Currency (CIC)
- An organization or community group identifies projects and productive capacity (goods and services) that will back their Voucher which will act as a mutual credit for that community.
- To create a voucher for your business or group - fill out this form!
