One year on: lessons from Zanzibar’s universal old-age pension

One year on: lessons from Zanzibar’s universal old-age pension

Jeremy Seekings
Pensions have made a big difference in the lives of Zanzibar’s elderly men and women. HelpAge/Courtesy

Kombo Mohamed, then aged 72, was the first person in Zanzibar to receive the new old-age pension introduced in April 2016. “My whole family has benefited,” he says, “I can pay my daughter’s