Islamic finance provides Kenyans with cushion against drought
Hamara Hujale tries to keep an eye on two squirming children and a pot of simmering ugali – a white doughy dish – as she reaches for her buzzing phone.
After speaking a few words, she hangs up and scribbles in a wrinkled notebook.
"My driver has found another customer so won't be back for another 30 minutes," she says with a satisfied smile.
Hujale, who lives in the northeast Kenyan town of Wajir, used to make and sell kitchen utensils, "mostly to pastoralists who would use them as dowry for their daughters' weddings".
"But as they lost their animals to drought, they had no money left to buy my products. So I had to find an alternative," she said.
Bernard Spragg. NZ