Verify from any phone
No smartphone, data bundle, or office journey. A monthly check-in takes about 20 seconds.
PROOF OF LIFE, REIMAGINED
No smartphone, data bundle, or office journey. A monthly check-in takes about 20 seconds.
Frail elders can nominate family assistance, recorded separately with its own accountable code.
Shared phones, impossible speed, and repeated timing patterns become visible—not mysterious scores.
A flag requests a call or home visit. It never silently suspends a living elder’s pension.
Every check-in records its method, phone, timing, outcome, and reviewer action for the fund.
Every part of Mzee Hai is designed to reduce leakage without transferring the burden to pensioners and their families.
A short Kiswahili flow works from the feature phone already in an elder’s hand.
Routine proof-of-life moves home. In-person visits are reserved for compassionate follow-up.
Every risk signal shows its reason, evidence, and human resolution in the audit trail.
AFRICA'S TALKING • USSD