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…
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…
“I think it was important because it allowed us to have notions about financial management for the future. We have already started with the school government. “The advantage lies in time management first, in our finances by making the difference between what is needed and what is futile – in a word, saving money.” “A…
The Director of Sokone Private High School, Mr. Dieng, gave us a tour of his school and its new building to discuss students’ needs for practical money management skills. He also showed us the agricultural land where students grow vegetables.
Two short workshops in Sokone, first with young people, organised by the Amadou Dème Foundation and then with women from GIE UTAS..
ISM Dakar has opened its doors for a half-day workshop on money management. A few students, and especially teachers and employees, have been actively involved in various activities: setting priorities, budgeting, recording expenses, calculating daily spending limit, practical tips for controlling expenses, educating children about managing money. Many thanks to ISM and today’s participants. …
At their request after last Sunday’s money management workshop, some ESUP Master’s students took part in an introductory entrepreneurship training which started with a simulation: participants set up a small business and ran it for a few days. Then the training covered how to start a business, setting prices, the importance of the customer (no…
Today ESUP Dakar invited a + b = 3 to give a one-hour presentation on money management for a hundred undergraduate students. For most of them, this is the first time they have to manage a monthly income (money sent by their parents) and very few write down their expenses or know what a budget…
Sitor Ndour, the general director of 2IM – Institut International de Management – in Dakar invited Sophie (a+b=3) to deliver a speech at 2IM’s graduation party, in the presence of the Minister of Higher Education. Sophie told students to forget about how much they get as salary, but to rather keep their spending limit in…
For our very first training workshops in Senegal on money management, we were first welcomed by the Amadou Deme Foundation in Dakar. The core content of the workshop was spending priorities and budgeting and participants asked many questions. Then we did a workshop with master students at ESUP: