Following the teachers’ training in January, APPEC-Education, our partner in DR Congo, took the opportunity of the Global Money Week to pilot the first three courses of our new training for high school students in 15 schools in Kinshasa and its suburbs, reaching more than 3,500 students. On February 13, the first training took place…
From January 23 to 25, about fifty teachers participated in a training of trainers in financial education. This training covered the basics of money management as well as pedagogical techniques in financial education and introduced a + b = 3’s new programme for schools in RD Congo, which consists of nine courses of 50 minutes…
APPEC, our partner in DR Congo, piloted an adaptation of our training workshop for low income families in the suburb of Kinshasa. The workshop focused on how to manage an irregular income (we took the example of a lady making and selling soap bars), how to record business expenses separately from personal expenses and calculate…
End of August, before school started, our Congolese partner, APPEC, organised several 3 day workshops on financial education for school teachers. APPEC’s Director and Facilitator, Jean-Michel, used the training guide that a+b=3 had designed for this first training in DR Congo. It covered how to manage our money in day 1 (budget, how to control…
During the Global Money Week organized by CYF that took place in Kinshasa from March 28 to April 3, APPEC-EDUCATION (the Association for the Promotion of Education in Entrepreneurship in Congo) with a + b = 3’s support, and in partnership with APROCEC (the Professional Association of Credit Cooperatives and Savings of DRC) presented the…
Lors de la Semaine Mondiale de l’Argent organisée par la CYF qui s’est tenue à Kinshasa du 28 mars au 3 avril , APPEC-EDUCATION (l’Association pour la Promotion de l’Education à l’Entrepreneuriat au Congo) avec le soutien de a+b= 3 et en partenariat avec l’APROCEC (l’Association Professionnelle des Coopératives de Crédit et d’Epargne de DRC)…
APPEC-Education (a + b = 3’s partner in DR Congo) with the collaboration of the mototaxis union and COPEMECO trained more than two hundred people in October and November. A first training workshop was conducted in October with around thirty mototaxis on managing expenses, the importance of savings – especially for emergencies -, bookkeeping and…
After our training workshops in Burkina Faso, Senegal and DR Congo, we conducted a survey on what the participants changed in their way they manage money: the main change noted spontaneously by all the people who answered the survey: expenses management: less unnecessary expenses. 77% have reduced their debts. 62% increased their savings. 69% have not…
On March 15 during the World Consumers Day, about fifty participants took part in workshop on budget and expenditures organised by our partner, APPEC, in Kinshasa, DR Congo.