Can financial education help reduce poverty?
Poor people often borrow money to make ends meet, but their debts add a burden they struggle to pay back. As these people juggle with financial issues, surely better money …
How to measure the impact of financial education
In our second webinar, we gave some insights on this important but difficult question: how to measure the impact of financial education. The first challenge is that financial education is …
Saving for back-to-school expenses
The last pair of participants of SAHI Training-of-Trainers workshop practised training this morning. They made their beauty salon business example even more realistic by bringing real shampoo bottles, conditioners and …
More practise sessions
More practise sessions all day today – participants facilitate the training session they have designed to help beneficiaries with one specific issue. There is still too much talking – very …
Practising facilitating
After reviewing key messages from the days before, SAHI participants calculated how much capital they needed to start a small coconut selling business and live off it. Only one group …
Starting the same business as the neighbours
Our second day of training the trainers hosted by SAHI, started with a review of the main lessons learned the day before: participants turned these lessons into a problem/solution game …
Into the shoes of a micro-entrepreneur
In the first day of our Training of Trainers in Manakara, Madagascar, organised by ATIA‘s local partner SAHI, participants have put themselves into the shoes of a micro-entrepreneur. We kicked …
One day in Antanarivo, Madagascar
The local NGO ‘Projet SANDRATRA‘ which is funded by Apprentis d’Auteuil invited a+b=3 to run a one-day Training of Trainers in Antanarivo for the educators, social assistants and programme managers …
Can financial literacy play a role in addressing climate change?
Financial literacy teaches to prioritise expenses. By consuming less, and spending more carefully, we waste less and reduce our carbon footprint. Switching off electricity, reducing heat/air conditioning by a degree …