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February 03, 2010
KENYA: GOVERNMENT ASKS CONCERN TO PILOT FIRST-EVER SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAM FOR URBAN POOR
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Kenya is the first country in the world to use mobile phones for cash transfers. In another first, in response to a food crisis affecting four million people in Nairobi’s slums, the Government of Kenya has asked Concern to pilot the nation’s first-ever social welfare program—again using mobile phones to distribute emergency cash to the absolute poorest living in the slums.
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