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Students at M-Pesa Foundation Academy in Thika are equipped with skills and encouraged to run enterprises in school.
At 16 and in high school, Prudence Atieno already has dependants. Last week, she withdrew Sh23,000 from her account, an amount she wired to her cousin’s school in Kisumu. Her cousin had been sent home for lacking school fees. This is not the first amount that Atieno has sent her family from the time she started making and selling mats.
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