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IPFS News Link • Africa: On the Map

Lucy Mbabazi: How One Rwandan Woman Is Using Mobile Phone Technology to Change the World

12-24-2016 • arclein

Lucy found a perfect way to test pilot a system with the United Nations World Food Program [WFP], which had been looking to replace the costly process of donating food to nearly 15,000 Congolese refugees in the Gihembe camp in Northern Rwanda. "For years, this food was being imported into Rwanda??"rice, salt, maize," says Lucy, "Maize is not something that [Congolese refugees] eat! They were trading in that maize to buy cassava flour." Why not just give refugees money to buy what they wanted at the

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Reported By robert klein

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