How to keep your money, valuables safe in your home

By John Kariuki

Kenya: Linda Maingi, an insurance broker, remembers how she and her siblings would spy on their father as he “inspected” the chicken houses and cattle sheds while she was growing up. The old man would spot a good hiding place for his money, take out his wallet and deftly stash it in a crack in the timber or under the roof of these structures.