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Alice Wambui, a vegetable vendor at Nyeri Wakulima Market, applied for the Hustlers Fund. [File, Standard]

Last week's public launch of the Financial Inclusion Fund, popularly known as the Hustler Fund (HF), offers a useful lens into the purposiveness that President William Ruto has promised to bring to bear in fulfilling the pre-elections promises he and his party coalition made to Kenyans.

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