World Bank to Help Kenya Build a National Safety Net to Reach 3.3 Million Poor People by 2017


“Being cushioned against devastating income losses by a small but regular transfer of money from the program helps poor people afford consistent nutrition and healthcare, and keep children in school. With these basics in place, vulnerable households are far more likely to become part of an economy that’s on the move.”


Now this is more like it.

More power to them.

Its sad to have hordes of young people not engaged in gainful employment- And a Good Number Of Them Left Their Arable Farms To Their Aged Parents To Come Tarmac In The City.

We Need Middle Level Technical colleges...hands On Training...


Its sad that we Cannot Feed Ourselves Yet We Have Enough Land Resources To Do So.

Its Sad.

Indeed it is sad and the sheer waste of potential is a crime.

But you could also say it is an opportunity. For any young man with something between his ears and willing to work had, there is real money to be made from agriculture.

Not like our parents time when most of their efforts were wasted through poor policies and practices, like the Moi era sabotage that was apparently meant to cut some tribes down to size.

Some of the things I read on Farming Kenya give me hope.

Kenya's MPs 2nd Highest paid(Per capita) in the world!

Over 75% of our income goes into recurrent expenditure

Somebody somewhere must be asking, 'Whats wrong with these monkeys?' We need to smoke what the Egyptians did... but while we cultivate it, the onus of improvement/development lies within ourselves as individuals

Poverty and the measures used to define it are relative and hugely depend on individual communities or social groupings.
Since perception plays a very important role is social status, the individuals deemed to have will go to great lengths to maintain or improve their status and in most cases this includes making sure that the people deemed to be of a lower standing do not get a chance to equal them.

we move our kids to secluded academies and lock ourselves into gated communities, we choose not to invest our skills and intelligence for the better good of the community consciously or lack of, for fear of having more people in the same class us ourselves.

In short poverty in Kenya will always be with us, but the beauty of life is that its a very short contract we have with our maker and soon we will be no more.