Somes villagers in western Kenya are receiving a universal basic income, an experimental programme by the American NGO Give Directly as a way to reduce poverty Until recently, Molly struggled to imagine life beyond the end of each repetitive day: work in someone else’s fields and earn enough to eat, rinse, repeat.
"It was a vicious circle I could not escape," says the 25-year-old villager in the Bondo region of western Kenya.
Her hardscrabble, rural existence is the same for many in Siaya County where people eke out a living farming maize, millet and cotton in the ochre soil.But that was […]
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