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.

Driving along Langata Road, Waiyaki Way, Parts of Ngnong' Road, Nyali Bridge in Mombasa I ask myself with all these hordes of men and women trekking in the morning and evening ... how long are we going to pretend as a country that we are sitting on a time bomb!

Visiting villages and hordes of idle youth lounging in the market places .. we need to think and come up with solutions PAP otherwise.. the problem is not the hotair Cordoms... Iko Chida papa hapa

The best bet would be taking advantage of multiplicities within which a community in which an individual finds themselves in...for example other than just subsistence farming for a farmers own consumption food they can use bi0-waste(including human waste) to generate bio-fuel and hence bio- generated electricity for his/her own small cottage factory/work-shop use to have a small cottage industry in making say ceramics..or plastics waste recycling there-by creating alternative stream of income ..or even having a micro-brewery and a matching rural-agro tourism complete with grounds for event/seminars..(depending on their size of occupancy ..which they don't even have to actually own....they can lease) there are many options out there if the fundamentals are right..because eventually the goal would be transform to competitive trading communities at a regional/global stage ..if only the information is availed ..and it is out there..there is a nut for every squirrel ..i believe

Blame it on the NGO culture of Haki Yetu compounded with the 5 year- electioneering jackpot..and the 100 bob youth for hire politician ..i think poverty fighting dhould be very distant and divorced from latter element ..there is a lot of pretense that masses are engaged in productive endeavors.. i always wonder? those hawkers in the traffic jams ..how do they pay rent..school fees? ..do they have a pension plan? health insurance cover ? same for makangas..and the rest of the lot in exhibiton stalls ..what happens to the hawkers if roads become traffic free..

Its not about owning but working on these farms. These old folks wouldn't hustle to know what other breeds of crops can do well on their farms. And what would be so wrong in working for your father anyway? I don't think any old man would have a problem if his son kept chicken, goats, cows etc. I know there's some "prestige" in being in Nairobi but ... haiko

It's pure hypocrisy to blame or even prescribe remedies for the 'youth'.