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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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In Kenya, for example, mobile transactions last year were up by about 20 percent over 2020, according to Capacity. EUREKA MOMENT After a 2007 visit to the Elmina Slave Castle , a former slave-trading depot in Ghana, Johnson had what she calls a “eureka moment.” Kenya was where mobile money became a success.”.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. Improving neonatal care in sub-Saharan Africa In 2007 Richards-Kortum, Oden, and their team began developing technology to improve neonatal health care and reduce death rates in sub-Saharan Africa.

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