Kenya’s co-operative movement now accounts for 45 per cent of the country’s GDP.
Until five years ago, Joseph Mwaura was just another downtrodden middle-aged Kenyan eking out a living washing cars at a petrol station on a busy highway in Nairobi. He hated the meagre $10 daily income, but with a family of four to feed he had no choice but to stick to his bottom rung of the ladder – or so he thought.
Today, Joseph runs several taxi-service cars, employs six people and lives in his own house, besides comfortably meeting his children’s education needs.
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