The day began with a training with young people facilitated by John, one of the trainers participating in these five-day training, and by Jean-Michel, from APPEC, a+b=3’s partner in DR Congo. The young people set up and managed a small shop and proved to be excellent salespeople. One young girl even decided to go and…
Today, the trainers practised facilitating the training session they had prepared the day before, giving them the opportunity to learn how to handle the training material, let the participants work, avoid talking too much, and check the understanding of the basic concepts discovered the first two days. The day ended with the string game and…
Jean Michel, a+b=3 partner in DR Congo, joined us to co-facilitate the training. The day started with the message game: the shorter and simpler it is, the better it goes! Then the participants set about adapting the exercises and materials they had discovered on Monday and Tuesday: based on a list of the problems of…
After reviewing the learnings of the day before (in the form of problems and solutions), the participants discovered another type of participatory training through the use of stories. The story of Esengo, a mother who makes and sells soaps – a case that we had set up with APPEC, our Congolese partner – enabled the…
The partners of Apprentis d’Auteuil in Kinshasa aim to empower children in street situations. In order to reinforce the effectiveness of the entrepreneurship programme already provided in the Vocational Training Centers, Apprentis d’Auteuil invited a+b=3 to train their partners’ trainers in financial management, both in terms of content and participatory training methods. Our first day…
Our Burkinabè partner APEFP (Association Pour l’Education Financière du Public) carried out a first face-to-face training on April 23, 2022 at Thomas Sankara University, with 54 students (against the 30 registered), training postponed due to the pandemic. APEFP trainers were trained online on our new platform and on a few videoconference sessions throughout 2021.The training…
Less money means fewer mealsOur Burkinabè partner APFEP carried out a major survey on the financial health of students in March-April 2022, with more than 200 students from various cities and universities in the country. 70% of students say they had to skip one or more meals in the past week due to lack of…
From April 7 to 10, 15 social workers of Enfants du Mékong attended a training the trainers on financial education in Sisophon, Cambodia. As financial hardships have hit families and their children even harder during Covid pandemic, it has proved more important than ever to complement Enfants du Mekong’s support to families with money management…
On December 21, 2019, a dozen participants in financial education training organised by ASM2E (a + b = 3’s partner in Taomasina, Madagascar) received their diploma. They represented the 351 people who attended the training programme divided into three sessions and several waves. During the graduation ceremony, the representative of the Caisse d’Epargne de Madagascar…
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…