<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; ">"The Pasha fund was created to provide seed capital to entrepreneurs interested in setting up businesses in the 210 constituencies. The people would receive funds ranging from Ksh. 850,000 to 2 million (US$10,000 to $25,000). They would then set up the business, provide value addition and allow the business to sustain itself with time and repay the loan. There was a rigorous application exercise but we assumed several things; that the people applying had studied their areas and found the kind of services that would
work, that the people had entrepreneurship skills, that business mentorship was easily available and that government services would be digitized fast enough to allow the businesses to thrive."</span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; "><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; ">http://www.pcworld.com/article/2036710/kenya-ict-board-learns-tough-lessons-from-digital-villages-project.html<br></span></span></div><div
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