Share 'T-Cash town? Food aid and mobile money in Saint Marc'

Marie sits with a group of other women outside a small vendor in Saint Marc, Voilá mobile phone in hand. They are waiting to spend the 1600 gourdes (US$40) that Mercy Corps just sent to their T-Cash accounts. As heads of households with IDPs (internally displaced persons) from the earthquake, they are among 5,000 recipients in Saint Marc who will receive money on their phones to buy rice, oil, be…