Delivering Change
Reach Global's education is designed to be delivered to women in savings groups by local organizations across the developing world. Learning sessions provide an engaging respite from a day otherwise filled with obligations and providing for others. Women and girls' familiarity with each other ensures a safe environment to address specific, private issues of critical concern, such as reproductive health and protecting savings.

Each education topic is divided into seven 30-minute sessions. As women participate over a series of weeks during their regular group meetings, they acquire and reinforce life-saving knowledge and skills in just a few hours. Women and girls are encouraged to share critical points with others in the community, extending the influence of these simple lessons and providing a catalyzing dynamic for community development.

Maximum impact
The technical content of Learning Conversations and Learning Games is provided by specialists in public health, microfinance and microenterprise development, and based on well-established adult learning and education design principles proven over more than two decades. The sessions' simplicity and transferability to minimally educated local facilitators and savings group members make them a critically important tool, particularly in South Asia and Africa, where education levels among rural people are very low and the numbers of marginalized people organized into savings groups high, and the need for basic knowledge and skills imperative.

Local organizations benefit, too
Learning Conversations and Learning Games offer powerful benefits to local organizations that use them:

  • They are easy to deliver.
  • They require minimal material.
  • They are easily transported and adapted to a wide variety of group meeting settings, such as under a tree, in a village home, or at a school.
  • They can be used with any group that comes together on a regular basis.

The methodology's simplicity, flexibility and replicability make it a powerful tool for promoting life-changing practices.