1. doctors in Tanzania using M-Pesa’s banking service to send bus fare …

    Doctors at the Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania clinic (CCBRT) say the average cost of a return bus ticket for a woman traveling from a rural area for treatment is $60, a huge amount in a country where the majority of people live on $2 a day.

    “We use the mobile phone to actually transfer those transport grants to the communities, so that those women can reach our facility…