Louisa Kanchewa talking about how her savings account supports her now and for the future. Louisa is a client of Opportunity in Malawi, a grantee of YouthStart.
YouthStart is a UNCDF programme in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation
YouthStart has brought access to savings to 200,000 youth like Louisa
www.uncdf.org/youthstart
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My name is Louisa Kanchewa from Malawi. If I was given an opportunity I would encourage the government to create more jobs for the youth to keep them less idle. An example of that would be vocational skills training schools which would help the youth gain other skills which they can't get from tuition. My account with Opportunity Bank is a Youth account. It is helpful at keeping the youth from spending. I am a girl and I like to spend on cloth, shoes and other stuff. So I take the money that I get for my pocket money and school allowance and I deposit it to my account at the Opportunity Bank. And when I ever need the money I just go to the ATM at any time. In the future when I might not get employed right away I could use this money and savings right now to open a workshop. It can be a middle grade workshop if my skills allow me to venture to this market.
Opportunity International and YouthStart submission for EUDevDays video contest.
www.uncdf.org/youthstart
