Financial education for girls
with Credit Suisse
Financial education for girls
with Credit Suisse
Plan International is working with Credit Suisse – one of the world's leading financial services providers, operating in over 50 countries – to improve the financial education and life skills of girls.
Financial Education for Girls is delivered in schools across Brazil and China by Plan International while Room to Read delivers the programme in Sri Lanka and Tanzania, with technical support from Aflatoun International.
The programme will provide approximately 100,000 girls with financial education – empowering the next generation of women to achieve better futures for themselves and their communities.
Over 3,900 teachers
have been trained to deliver financial education curriculum
Over 144,600 girls
received financial and life skills education
Over 1,500 schools
have been refurbished or improved
Financial Education for girls
Financial Education for girls
In alignment with Credit Suisse’s core business and Financial Inclusion Initiative, the Financial Education for Girls programme aims to ensure that:
- over 100,000 girls receive financial education through life skills programmes
- girls have increased self-confidence and agency over their future choices
- the agenda for educating girls is supported more strongly by families, communities and authorities at the local and national level.
Watch this video to hear from Juan, 14, who tells us about her experience of our programme in China.
Transforming futures
Karoline is 15 years old and lives in rural northeast Brazil. She is a peer educator for the Financial Education for Girls programme at her school, where she delivers the curriculum to her fellow students.
As part of the programme, Karoline started her own enterprise to make and sell coxinha, a traditional Brazilian chicken pastry. She received support to purchase the ingredients and packaging material before making and selling her coxinhas in school and at an organised fair.
Karoline also used her leadership and arithmetic skills to help her classmates complete budgets for their own enterprises. The experience helped her learn about business planning, market research, budgeting and marketing – and become more confident about her future.
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Find out how the programme is supporting girls with financial education
Watch this animation from Credit Suisse
Find out how the programme is supporting girls with financial education
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Lockdown learning
Coronavirus has had a devastating impact in Brazil, one of the worst-affected countries in the world. With schools closed due to the pandemic, Financial Education for Girls is using digital platforms to keep peer educators and students engaged, connected and protected.
WhatsApp groups were created to help staff in Codó, São Luis and Teresina deliver content and set tasks, while also enabling peer educators to stay in touch with, and learn from, each other. Watch the film to hear from Bia, Gleyce and Gloria, who were invited to discuss their experiences of lockdown learning and their hopes for a post-pandemic future.