Ngikalei Amoton, a HSNP beneficiary from Namadak, Turkana NorthWhen the government of Kenya began giving cash instead of food aid to poor people in Kenya's drought-stricken North Eastern region, the aim was to help them buy food more efficiently and conveniently. But the cash-transfer programme has had an unexpected effect: Most of the recipients of the cash have used it to start small businesses, which they see as the best way of adapting to increasingly tough climatic conditions.
Here is the full story as covered by a Reuter's journalist http://www.trust.org/item/20150511054312-ujp78
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