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World Food ProgramDeveloping Community Inclusion Currencies
2022
IMF Finance & DevelopmentNew Old Idea - Technological innovation is fueling the resurgence of community currencies
2021
Red CrossBasic Income Press Release
2021
Radio New ZealandVirtual currency helps Kenya slum dwellers battle Covid-19 downturn
2021
VOAKenyans Turn to Community Initiative Currency to Stay Afloat
2020
SHADO MagazineCapitalism in Crisis: Alternative Currencies during COVID-19
2020
CityAMEmpowering communities with alternative currencies towards a post-Covid economy
2020
ForbesRed Cross Implements Crypto To Boost Disaster-Prone Communities
2019
Thomson ReutersRed Cross boosts disaster-prone communities with blockchain 'cash'
2019
NewsweekIntroducing Blockchain Impact Award Winner Grassroots Economics Foundation
2019
BloombergClosing the Cash Gap With Cryptocurrency
2018
DecryptA Mombasa slum looks to digital currency to escape poverty
2018
News24Community currency pioneer talks to business owners
2015
YES! MagazineAlternative Currencies Are Bigger Than Bitcoin: How They're Building Prosperity From London to Kenya
2015
Christian Science MonitorAfrica's 'First' Alternative Currency
2014
Standard MediaBangla-Pesa Comeback
2014
Al JazeeraKenyan slum embraces alternative currency
2013
Kenya TodayMombasa Governor Joho reopens Bangla-Pesa
2013
BrookingsBangla-Pesa Currency
2013
HuffPostThe Crime of Alleviating Poverty
2013
QuartzIntroducing Bangla-Pesa
2013
BlorgeKenya's answer to the Green America Exchange
2013

Radio

PRIAfrican slum lacked cash so people made their own
France CultureMonnaies complémentaires au Kenya

Videos

About Community Inclusion Currencies (December 2022)

Documentary on GE's Founder Will Ruddick (Sept 2016)

Kenya's printed cash: Townships use 'community currency' — Al Jazeera (Feb 2016)

Kibera's Lindi-Pesa — CCTV Africa

Bergrivier Rand Launch

Tazama Bangla-Pesa Short Documentary

K24 News Bangla-Pesa's Replication

2013 Bangla-Pesa Documentary

Bangla-Pesa Post Court Relaunch K24 News

Dr. Jem Bendell on Bangla-Pesa

Bangla-Pesa Animation

Community Currency Animation

A general description of Complementary Currencies

GETS System — A commercial Business to Business credit clearing system

Bangla-Pesa YouTube Playlist

Letters of Support

  • Anette Riggs, President of the IRTA
  • Mombasa County Assembly, Hon. Duncan O. Onyango
  • Kenya National Assembly, Hon. Twalib Badi
  • UNNGLS, Hamish Jenkins, United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
  • Attorney General Kenya

Other Sites of Information

Wikipedia — General Information on Complementary Currencies
complementarycurrency.org — Resource Center — Database of different Complementary Currency systems
wiki.p2pfoundation.net — Various Complementary Currency Software