by Anton Krone | Sep 4, 2024 | News
SaveAct provided training to Biowatch facilitators to enable them to introduce SaveAct’s savings methodology to farmers they work with. Biowatch tried the methodology with one group, who then got remote support from SaveAct and their own facilitator during the Covid...
by Shelagh McLoughlin | Jul 29, 2024 | News
SaveAct’s financial education tools are being drawn upon in the development of material for a study involving 540 adolescents in three countries, South Africa, Nepal and Colombia. The project, called “Alive”, is developing and testing interventions for...
by Shelagh McLoughlin | Jul 29, 2024 | News
Youth are hungry for information and skills to manage their finances, and interventions are sorely needed. That was the finding of a recent pilot study done by SaveAct and partner Fiinafas, in collaboration with the Duzi-uMngeni Conservation Trust (DUCT). The...
by Shelagh McLoughlin | Jul 29, 2024 | News
Chloe Jacquin was not the stereotypical business school graduate. “I was interested in people and making a difference in their lives,” she says. At business school, she was interested in “ethics, finance, financial inclusion and anything related to that.” Her...
by Anton Krone | Jun 25, 2024 | News
When Lindelwa Ndwalane joined a savings group in 2021 she was in dire straits. “It was really bad. I was in debt. Actually, I was in liquidation,” she says. “It was an ugly time because I had no sense of needing to save or budget or anything like that. I didn’t have a...
by Anton Krone | May 22, 2024 | News
After losing her job in Johannesburg in 2019, Themi Mzindle came back home and challenged herself to start doing something new. She planted two rows of cabbages in her garden. She sold the 20 cabbages to neighbours and this encouraged her to grow other vegetables....
