Cash restores dignity to the elderly in Murang’a

85 year old Ndura Kinyanjui at his home,he has bought chicken and herds two goats with the money he gets during an interview with the elderly in thika on the Importance of cash transfer programmes in the lives of the elderly on 30th september 2016 PHOTO DAVID GICHURU

Ndura Kinyanjui isn’t sure about his age. But if you insist on knowing when and where he was born, he produces his original identity card. It shows he was born in 1931 in Murang’a. But for the last three decades, Kiang’ombe slum in Thika has been his home.

“Things were very different back then,” he says. “Life was easier...simpler.”