“When a girl saves, one realizes that the household is also saving, since women influence the household in a number of financial decision this needs to be made, our partnership with women will enable the girl child to save from a young age for a better economic empowerment.” Lugalambi said.
Anatali Nambooze the project leader said this will be implemented for 16 months and their target is to reach over 25,000 young girls from 50 secondary schools across Uganda.
“This project aims at promoting the financial inclusion of young girls through using mentorship by women and encouraging high involvement of the financial institutions”, Nambooze said.
The project targets local and modern mobile banking systems, the integrated use of a unique model of media campaigns such as television, radio, social media as well as attracting the private sector participation said.
It will act as a platform for the young girls to learn the financial foundations and prepare them for the after school into the social-economic environment. It will also build convergence between the skills acquired in school, business startups and those required in the market and regular face to face awareness events said.