Re: ☑ [ANN] ☰ [ ICO 06|04|2017 ] ☰ Humaniq

The last few days Humaniq Global Challenge team have been traveling through the villages of Kitui suburb and talked a lot to the local people. The majority of them are domestic and farm workers. On average, they make $1 per week only when, for example, a bus ticket to the town costs $2. They manage to survive in these condition by helping each other: for instance, if a family has no food, their neighbors help them to subsist. In exchange for that, when the time comes, they repay their neighbors by helping with a harvest. Most people from the village we were visiting didnt have a mobile phone. When answering questions how would they use it if they have it, they told that, above all, they would use a mobile phone for a job search, salary receipt and being in touch with farmers around the country for experience exchange. An inconvenience of getting paid in cash turned out to be based on a gender issue: while men make money, women are occupied in raising children and in maintaining the household; if the money remains in the mens hands, they are most likely to be spent on anything but the family needs.