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…
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…
On 14, 15 and 16 August 2019, 23 members of ASCOVI (the Food Consumers’ Association) who run small businesses participated in a money management training organised with the technical support of a + b = 3 and APPEC. The first day focused on the management of family money (spending priorities, budget, how to avoid debts,…
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 the fourth day, the participants set up and ran a small business and were able to practise making a plan, set selling prices, manage supplies, build the shop to attract customers, sell, and of course keep the accounts and calculate earnings. A busy morning. Fifth and Last Day: Setting up a Business (Continued):…
The second day of our training for women entrepreneurs was devoted to following the case of a soap merchant (how to forecast sales, how to increase sales, how to calculate capital and how much to pay oneself). Then we practised how to prioritise personal and family expenses and make a budget. The third…