How WhatsApp transformed 70-year-old Kenyan woman's beaded basket sales

Africa Climate Conversations.

May 28, 202415:24Science & Medicine

This week, I was visiting a town in Makueni County, located in the southeastern part of Kenya. About an hour's drive from Makueni's capital town Wote, I met a 70-year-old lady who, after a severe three-year drought hit t...

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