"Poor people often fail to meet their needs because they don't have cash, but once they get it they usually spend it wisely" KIKWEMBE, Tanzania, July 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tatu Mtulya looks older than her age. Her sun-parched skin and the repairs to her well-worn dress say it all. She is poor. The 49-year-old single mother lives in a grass-thatched house with her four children in a village next to a highway in Tanzania's northern Muheza district. She is among thousands of women from families deemed extremely poor who have been singled out to receive cash handouts as part of the government's efforts to lift its citizens out of poverty. Mtulya spent her grant of 355,000 Tanzanian shillings ...
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