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New reporting from the huge ongoing 12-year universal basic income experiment in Kenya. The BBC returns to the same village it visited 5 years ago:
"My life before, I had worries, but now, I feel so excited. I'm very happy. There is a change in the village."
"The money does make us more united."
"Through our meetings, it is also uniting us together. We have unity."
"Perhaps the most profound impact has been on education... almost all kids from the village go to school every day of every term."
"The health of the villages has also improved."
"Since receiving the money, Evelyn has started selling fried fish from nearby Lake Victoria. She has doubled her income."
"I feel like I'm independent."
"It creates jobs... for every dollar that was given to a recipient of @GiveDirectly's transfers, there is a multiplier effect of 2.5x."
"If it stops I don't have worries, because I've moved from zero to step number ten. Now I just thank my God for the help."
UBI works. It WORKS. Stop doubting it and start demanding it. 💵
Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social@melissachemam
Thousands of Kenyan villagers are being given free cash as part of a huge trial being run by an American non-profit, GiveDirectly. "A kind of universal basic income". Five years on, the BBC’s Mary Harper returns to see what’s changed. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
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