Six hundred million girls are part of the "bottom billion." Deep-rooted cultural beliefs and traditional practices deprive girls of education, health care and nutrition. Such poverty and inequality bring into stark relief the tremendous odds and diminished life chances adolescent girls face. Poverty is, by definition, a persistent trans-generational problem. If girls can't find a way out, they will soon be raising their own families in poverty.

At the same time, women and girls represent tremendous potential for themselves, their families and their communities. Equipped with basic knowledge and skills about home-based health practices, business and household money management, they can be the last generation living in grinding poverty.

Savings groups—a platform for change
Reach's approach multiplies the unifying power and social support savings groups provide women by integrating adolescent girls into this platform. Reach pioneered the inclusion of girls into established savings groups, dramatically expanding the number of change agents equipped to break the generational cycle of poverty.

Reach has proven the power and feasibility of uniting girls and their mothers in groups, and supporting girls in groups of their own. Women and girls—mothers and daughters—can redefine their futures with the right knowledge, skills and the collective support of each other.

Reach Global is the right resource—right now
Reach Global designs life changing education for very poor women and girls and training systems to enable delivery of this powerful education at massive scale, through a variety of social enterprise models that sustain its delivery.