First Lady Rachel Ruto has called on Christians to take up the Hustler Fund in order to grow their businesses and support God's work.
Speaking during a church service at Redeemed Gospel Church in Nairobi on Sunday, December 4, the First Lady demonstrated the importance of the Fund to Christians.
"I want to urge you all to take the opportunity because many times we lack the funds to grow our businesses," the First Lady told the congregants at the Church.
She also took issue with the opposition leaders who are faulting the Fund as too little to have any impact on small-scale businesses across the country.
"It reminds me of one time when we started Table Banking with women in Nairobi and many of them were asking how much Ksh100, KSh200, Ksh500, or even Ksh1,000 can do," Rachel Ruto highlighted.
The First Lady remembered how she told the women to just start and see what the money that they considered "too little" can do.
She used a Swahili saying "little by little fills up the measure" (haba na haba hujaza kibaba) to illustrate how the women were able to increase their savings using Table Banking.
"The women who used to look down on that small money are today millionaires because they took up the challenge of starting small," Mama Ruto stated.
Furthermore, the First Lady took the opportunity to provide an elaborate way in which Christians can grow their Hustler Fund loan limit from Ksh500 to Ksh50,000.
"Today you may have ksh500, tomorrow you will get to Ksh1,000 and the next day you will get to ksh2000," she elaborated adding that eventually, the individual will get to the Ksh50,000 limit.
President William Ruto launched the Hustler Fund flagship project of the Kenya Kwanza government on Thursday, November 30 at the Green Park Terminus.
The government has processed 22 Hustler Fund loans per second in the last 24 hours, with a total of Sh2.9 billion disbursed since its launch last week.