Among the clearest lessons of this difficult year is that the mobilisation of savings among vulnerable populations is crucial to household resilience, reports the European Microfinance Platform.
Savings Groups are resilient – and they are reorganizing themselves. But here, where news trickles down slowly, the environment is ripe for disinformation, confusion, and fear.
Through HelpAge, an intergenerational programme that restores livelihoods and builds community cohesion in post-Ebola Sierra Leone, youth volunteers train Savings Groups for the elderly.
