I thought you might like to see this very short video from Burkina Faso.
All in Case Study
A Practical Approach to HIV/AIDS
The model shatters the myth that people affected by HIV/AIDS cannot save or carry out productive activity.
Keeping it together in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire
... one brave treasurer who buried her group’s metal box moments before she fled her village. When she came back she found ...
The Gold Day Savings Club
A Turkish student of mine tells this story:
Secret Savers in the States
Maria is 33, unmarried and has one child. She owns her own home. She is ...
The Gatwikera Railway Savings Club and The Role of Rewards
While these behaviors may seem antique in 2012, they likely were socially important in 1810.
I submit here for your viewing pleasure a short video clip!
Too Much Protection?
... its long cues, its love of stamps and paperwork, its indifferent staff, and its inscrutable hours of operation ...
Three-legged Temperance
The villagers conducted the traditional kava greeting and settled to listen. It was the mid-1960s.
Making a Market
Past the gem-green banana trees cropped on dark, chocolaty soil and well beyond vast expanses of foddering brush ...
Excellent vignettes of four stars. Thanks, Suzanne.
When it all falls apart: VSLAs in crisis
More good anecdotal evidence about how SGs help poor people in crisis.
Do Savings Groups help the very poor in times of stress? It certainly seems like they do...
How to Launch an Adult Education Program
Personal note and reflections from Suzanne - so thoughtful!
CRS youth program.
Saving and Thriving - I think
Does adding a diet and cooking piece making savings groups more expensive? Yes! But, does it make groups more relevant, entertaining and powerful for women? Yes as well.
Savings By Stealth
If James Bond got into Savings Groups, he could start by learning from Doña Santos, La Clandestina
Thrift and Thrill: Tales from Latin America, Part Three
Is there "gentle pressure" to embed raffles into Savings Groups in Latin America?
Small Change, Big Chance: Tales from Latin America, Part Two
"We decided to bet a dollar on the Pig. Though we lost, for a long and pleasing moment, we imagined what we would do with our payout – in this case, $60: We mentally spent it on beer and sandwiches..."
Gambling to Save: Tales from Latin America, Part One
"The regulators - in this case a supervisory agency not the central bank - seem under the spell of an aging movie star who promotes a very popular saving-whilst-gambling product...."