Kenya Pioneers New Way to Transfer Money

In Kenya, sending money home to villages and farms from the city used to be problematic. Many people in rural areas do not have access to banking, making it difficult for them to receive and send money. But a revolutionary mobile telephone system is making it easy to move money, changing Kenyan society. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi that the system was the first of its kind in the world.

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