New Orleans The bleeding edge hope for technology in handling finance is often seen as Africa and more specifically Kenya and very pointedly mobile phones. To the degree a mobile phone system could obviate having bank accounts and ease the problems and costs of money transfer for remittances, this could be a good news except …
Tag: Korogocho
Korogocho, Education, and the Bursary Campaign
Nairobi The ACORN Kenya community organizers, Sammy Ndirangu and David Musungu, met Judy Duncan, head organizer of ACORN Canada, Drummond Pike formerly of Tides and now colleague at Paladin Partners, and me just outside of the Korogocho mega-slum at 350,000 people, the 2nd largest in Nairobi after the more famous Kibera. We were to meet …
Stress and Bad Health in Poor Communities
Nairobi The cultural shift of time zones and airports between New Orleans and Nairobi might only add up to 8 hours forward and cooler, drier temperatures but going from True Grit on the United Airlines screens to all of the news now from Al Jazeera is a big change worth noting. Plane loads of lawyers …