What we must do to get out of job crisis, poverty

Last week, a World Bank report revealed that Kenya has the sixth-highest number of poor people in the world. The report revealed that 17.6 million Kenyans are living below Sh200 a day. Although they are nearly half of all Kenyans, these poor people are the forgotten millions in this country.

Do you hear politicians talking about them relentlessly during weekend rallies? Is their plight debated consistently in Parliament? To make matters worse, even the climate seems to have lined up against them. Earlier this year, the long rains delayed considerably and adversely affected millions of smallholder farmers across the country. In Kenya, 98 per cent of agriculture depends on rain.