grassroots-pelican - Articles by Will Ruddick

By Will Ruddick
Fri 19 December 2014

Looking Towards 2015

2014 has been an intense year developing the structures to allow community currency programs to one day become accessible across Africa....

By Will Ruddick
Tue 18 November 2014

After more than a year of trading Bangla-Pesa, with millions of shillings worth of bills changing hands, the program is running strong....

By Will Ruddick
Fri 24 October 2014

Nairobi's first community currency Gatina-Pesa, following Bangla-Pesa's success has started circulation with vigor. Due to its dense...

By Will Ruddick
Sat 11 October 2014

With an amazing march through the slum, starting from Congo and ending at Gatina Primary School the entire community has been mobilized...

By Will Ruddick
Thu 25 September 2014

The Gatina Business Organization is busy preparing for the community currency's official launch on October 11th. Children from the...

By Will Ruddick
Fri 29 August 2014

Nairobi's Dagoretti North MP. Hon. Paul Simba Arati will be attending the launch of Gatina-Pesa in October. Besides support from local...

By Will Ruddick
Thu 21 August 2014

Gatina-Pesa in Nairobi (a sister currency to Bangla-Pesa) is set to launch in early October! Initial designs of the Gatina-Pesa have been...

By Will Ruddick
Mon 21 July 2014

Two settlements in Nairobi are racing to create their own Bangla-Pesa exchange networks. Kawangware and Kangemi groups are already near...

By Will Ruddick
Wed 16 July 2014

July has seen the Bangla-Pesa program surpass 200 accepting businesses and the introduction of three primary schools into the...

By Will Ruddick
Thu 12 June 2014

“Cash is the enemy of the poor,” wrote Rodger Voorhies, director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s program aimed at improving...