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Savings and Credit groups
Traditionally a part of the Literacy and Financial Education programme, some provinces are now developing this aspect into a transformational Savings and Credit programme
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Literacy and Financial Education
One of the most cost-effective literacy programmes in the world. We train community volunteers as literacy facilitators, who are then equipped to run literacy circles in their own community.
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90 year old Pam Brooks takes on an epic 90 mile walk along the Sussex coastline to support our life-changing literacy and savings programmes in Burundi.
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MU @ UNCSW June Butler Blog: Day Two
Here June tells us what she has been up to on her 2nd day at the UN Commission on the Status of Women