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High school students create money transfer application

St Joseph's Rapogi principal Maurice Otunga during an interview at his school on 21/5/2018. Two form 3 students from his school have invented a money transfer system that can be used in various institutional transactions. (Sammy Omingo, Standard)

When anyone thinks of developing a mobile cash transfer platform, much less by high schools students, the idea seems far-fetched.

But Teddy Okatch and Shadrack Oguta dared to dream and have successfully developed a money transfer system through which parents can directly deposit their children’s pocket money with the school accounts clerk.

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