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For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

- Ann Cotton
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All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.

Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.

For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.

At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.

The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.

To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. 'Every Child Belongs in School' provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path.

In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.

If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.

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For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.