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Jamii Bora

Kenyan microfinance organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ6147710 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jamii Bora, which means "good families" in Swahili, is a Nairobi, Kenya based microfinance organization. As of 2007, it was the largest microfinance institution in Kenya. It was started by Ingrid Munro in 1999.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jamii Bora” as kenyan microfinance organization. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jamii, Bora and Kenyan.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jamii, Bora and Kenyan providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6147710. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jamii Bora” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.