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…
At the request of the mayor of the town, ASM2E, our partner in Madagascar, ran a family budgeting training with a group of parents (mostly mothers) in Vatomandry, 180 km from Tamatave.
Nine out of ten Malagasy live below the poverty line. With a non-regular daily income, managing money becomes even more critical. The Association Success-Madagascar Education and Environment (ASM2E) in Toamasina has been helping families since 2016 to enable them to educate their children, giving school supplies kits and raising awareness on the importance of education…
On Monday we worked on levels 3 and 4 of the entrepreneur programme and wrapped up the week on Tuesday morning.
The second level of the finance for entrepreneurs training designed for 1001 Fontaines/ Ranontsika focused on end of month routines. review daily routine (from level 1) role play: selling water to schools recording school sales calculating a monthly profit and water loss role play: paying employees recording monthly transactions end of month routine review
After rehearsing the first level workshop (daily bookkeeping and cash reconciliation), Ranontsika facilitators piloted the training with three entrepreneurs who came to the head office. rehearsing The day in the life of an entrepreneur ; is the business profitable? Why tracking is so important personal or business expenses? end of day reconciliation workshop wrap up:…
After interviewing entrepreneurs (the target recipients for this training programme), we designed the bookkeeping and cash box tools and an easy training workshop to explain them. This afternoon, we tested the first session with the two Ranontsika facilitators. Introduction cards The day in the life of a Ranontsika water- producer entrepreneur… …and how it translates…
Sophie is on a 8 day trip to Madagascar to help 1001 Fontaines’ local partner Ranontsika to empower their grassroots entrepreneurs on book-keeping and business skills.We started this project with interviewing entrepreneurs. first water station visited current book keeping second water station third water station visited