SMALL and Medium Enterprise Minister Elias Mubanga says citizens are appreciating the Cash for Work programme because it has created jobs and reduced poverty levels. And Mubanga says government has no intention of phasing out the Marketeer Booster Loans despite poor repayment rates from beneficiaries. In an interview, Mubanga said the recently launched Cash for Work programme was helping to alleviate poverty in the country. “This is a brilliant, great idea that people should not, especially the young people, should not move up and down the streets. This programme is capturing those who are looking for some piecework and the impact it is leaving in the lives of the youths is very huge, it is so huge especially in these...

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