EXERCISE 9WOMEN AND MONEY

Objective

The objective of this exercise is for the participants to discuss what women can do to keep the money they make in their businesses and encourage them to save them.

Description

1. To start discussions and reflections the facilitator gives the participants directions for a role play.

2. Following the roleplay probe the participants to talk about why women can’t keep their money and how they can all help to solve this problem.

Directions for role play

There are two women both of whom are business women and two men who are relatives to the business women.

The first business woman sells and the relative collects the money to keep.

The second woman sells and save the money in the VSLA box that the young entrepreneurs formed at the beginning of the boot camp or a local bank.

After some period, the first woman went to the relative for the business money to buy stock and the money could not be gotten.

The second woman, who saved in the VSLA Box or the local bank, easily went for her money and purchased her stock.

At the end, while the first woman’s business collapsed, as a result of the relative spending the money, the second woman’s business flourished.