MICRO-FINANCE

   The K-rep bank, with its emphasies on small consistent savings to acquire a big loan- has led to people having a new view of a banking institution. It is that a small trades who sells roasted maize, or sukuma wiki or tomatoes can bank atleast a weekly saving of atleast kshs100 to eventually set a kshs 100 to eventually get a kshs 5000 loan after a priod of time.
  Micro-finance is seen as (even by hte government) one of the ways of poverty reductionwith the affected being in the key places.

Location: MASHIMONI, NAIROBI, KENYA