Articles tagged with WFP
By Antony Ngoka
Mwethia to Jubilee in Kitui East
The jubilee celebrations in Kitui East, Kenya, have fostered unity and community empowerment through unique community asset vouchers, providing a transformative platform for settling debts, promoting mutual support during financial scarcity, and preserving cultural heritage, thereby inspiring prosperity and self-sufficiency in the community.
By Will Ruddick
Comunity Inclusion Currencies for Food Security: Impacts of Grassroots Economics and WFP's Game-Changing Approach
Talib Mutogi, the Kitui-East area Chief praised the project, saying, "Mumo vouchers (CIC) have changed the lives of the people in my community. I'm happy to see people meet every week to trade using vouchers, creating trust amongst them. I'm grateful for the project and it's my prayer that it continues for the benefit of this community."
By Will Ruddick
31 Currencies - Mid-year 2022 Report
Since May (roughly 3 months) we’ve seen 20,481 user to user transactions with a trade volume of 3,746,594 Kenyan Shillings using 31 different Vouchers (CICs) in communities across Kenya including Bangladesh (Bangla-Pesa), Kakuma, Kitui, Kwale and Nairobi.
By Will Ruddick
Launching Community Inclusion Currencies
The cumulation of a huge amount of work has gone into 14 Community Inclusion Currency Launches last week. So proud of the team and grateful for all the hard work.
By Joyce Kamau
Preparing to Launch with the World Food Programme
These groups are practicing and developing ways similar to ancient practices inorder to share and trade their resources among each other fairly even when Kenyan shillings are scarce.
