Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Weeds in the Wild, our podcast about how policy

affects real people's lives.

I'm Sarah Cliff and today I am lucky to be here with my colleague and frequent Weeds guest,

Dylan Matthews.

What's up?

And Dylan, you are here to tell us a story about what happens when you try to fix poverty

in a radically new way.

Yeah, that's right.

And we're specifically going to talk about a trip I took a little while ago to a tiny

village in Kenya where this international NGO is doing a really clever and weird experiment

that's kind of going to change the village forever.

I talked to this guy.

I am Michael Fade.

He's one of the researchers who's writing this experiment and he told me about the moment

that his organization brought together everyone in this village and told them what was

about to happen.

So we're all sitting under a white tent.

There's no stage.

There's no carpet.

This is a dirt floor.

This is just the village with everybody sitting in whatever plastic chairs they can gather.

So the guy who's talking here works for the same group as Michael that's doing this

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