FrontlineSMS:Credit Takes on Kisumu

A few weeks ago, the FrontlineSMS:Credit team and FrontlineSMS M&E Intern Juliana embarked on a trip to Kisumu to meet FrontlineSMS users and potential PaymentView users. After an early morning flight, we met Joseph Achola, head teacher at Lake Primary School, and one of the leaders of the local primary school head teachers’ association. Joseph arranged for us to meet head teachers from three local schools to discuss the potential of using PaymentView to enable parents to pay for school fees with mobile money. Schools using PaymentView would enable easy management of incoming school fee payments and would allow schools to manage installment payment plans for school fees.

The meeting with the four head teachers was very successful. All were positive about the impact that PaymentView could have on their operations and we scheduled follow-up meetings with Josana Academy and Aga Khan Primary School for Tuesday. After talking with administrators and account managers at both schools, they were convinced that PaymentView would be very valuable since parents would find it convenient and the administration would have access to digitized records...