You work for an NGO, your beneficiaries face financial problems, and you would like to strengthen your financial knowledge to be able to help them more efficiently.
In this introduction course, we will go through the main misconceptions about money and entrepreneurship and lay the foundation for a more thorough understanding of money. We will also give you an overview of a+b=3’s training programmes.
Many poor people don't know how to manage money. Entrepreneurship can solve poverty. Debts can be good or bad. We must spend on needs and not wants. Learning how to grow money is a very important skill.
These statements are found in many financial education programmes. In this starter course, we will challenge all of them!
Managing expenses is the cornerstone of financial education. Almost all programmes categorise spending as needs or wants… Not ours. Most programmes also target low-income individuals, establishing a direct link between poor expense management and their financial situation… What if that's simply wrong?
In this section, we will go through common misconceptions about business and investments. Look around... most financial institutions make you believe that "money grows"...
