Microfinance group helps thousands of poor Kenyans help themselves

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published July 14, 2009.

Kenya’s fastest-growing microfinance group is ten years old this year. It began when fifty people from the slums of the capital Nairobi came together to start saving small sums of money. Aidan O’Donnell reports on how this microfinance organization is now helping almost a quarter of a million Kenyans out of poverty.