About 8,000 people work on six McLeod Russel tea estates in Uganda. Two times per month, pluckers, weeders and sorters receive their salary payment in cash. To pay these employees, who don’t have access to a bank account, McLeod Russel charters a small aircraft to distribute the cash needed. Bags of money are dropped out of the plane onto each of the six McLeod Russel estates.
It is on these tea estates that UNCDF MM4P, together with McLeod Russel, is piloting the digitization of salary payments.
