Microfinance group helps Kenyans build a new life

Outside of Nairobi, the Kenyan microfinance group Jamii Bora Trust is building a new, self-contained town that someday may be home to 10,000 people, with schools, shops and small industry.

Gatekeepers Kenya 2009

By Jim Simon

September 14, 2009

Published inThe Seattle Times

On the second night in her new house here, Jane Ngoiri told one of her children to get something out of the kitchen. Then she started laughing. "I told them, 'It is us talking about a kitchen. A kitchen!' " recalled Ngoiri, a former ...

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