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	<title>Comments on: From Demographic Burdens to Dividends: Implications for Financial Inclusion</title>
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		<title>By: John Gitau</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apt, Professor Yuwa! I am glad to report that you are walking the talk at Mastercard Foundation. Mastercard is one of the biggest supporter of Equity Foundation&#039;s financial literacy program which is reaching many youth In Kenya. The scholarship program is awesome and it is not only giving practical support to the youth but also hope to those who are looking forward to the next round of support for empowerment. I believe financial literacy is where to start so that the young generation is well equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude to navigate the complex terrain of financial services. Financially literate youth will make better use of financial products, especially savings. The entry of telcos in the financial services industry helps in stepping up money frequency. They are also providing suitable rails for financial products such as savings, credit, insurance and planning tools for effective money management. Soon, and with  Mastercard&#039;s  kind of support, we in the financial education field will be able to teach financial literacy through the phone as well as drive the young generation traffic to the phone as a vehicle for all financial services. The youth are obsessed with their phones, making it the closest tool to deliver all financial services on a self service basis. We have had a good start with the Safaricom&#039;s timely innovation with M-Swari, a financial service that has savings and credit, two important pillars of financial empowerment.

I think beautiful post like this one, should, on top of highlighting what needs to be done, come out clearly with what is being done practically on the ideas implementation. That will increase  action rhythm. In the absence of such demonstrations, the posts may just pass as yet another new posts highlighting challenges, without any action recommendation.

One would request development support institutions such as Mastercard Foundation to give a chance to as many financial education players in a market as possible so that each puts best effort in financial education. Scholarship in the case of Equity Foundation is just one good intervention. We at Kenya Financial Education Centre(www.financialeducationcentre.co.ke) have brilliant ideas on how to scale financial education in Kenya especially leveraging on technology the domain where the youth are held spell. Some interventions need only a little financial support and they are good to go. If Mastercard wants to fund financial education in a country, the best, perhaps is to invite ideas based bids to all financial education players and funding is done across the board as we are all aiming at the same goal..

Good perspective Professor and great job at Mastercard Foundation.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apt, Professor Yuwa! I am glad to report that you are walking the talk at Mastercard Foundation. Mastercard is one of the biggest supporter of Equity Foundation&#8217;s financial literacy program which is reaching many youth In Kenya. The scholarship program is awesome and it is not only giving practical support to the youth but also hope to those who are looking forward to the next round of support for empowerment. I believe financial literacy is where to start so that the young generation is well equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude to navigate the complex terrain of financial services. Financially literate youth will make better use of financial products, especially savings. The entry of telcos in the financial services industry helps in stepping up money frequency. They are also providing suitable rails for financial products such as savings, credit, insurance and planning tools for effective money management. Soon, and with  Mastercard&#8217;s  kind of support, we in the financial education field will be able to teach financial literacy through the phone as well as drive the young generation traffic to the phone as a vehicle for all financial services. The youth are obsessed with their phones, making it the closest tool to deliver all financial services on a self service basis. We have had a good start with the Safaricom&#8217;s timely innovation with M-Swari, a financial service that has savings and credit, two important pillars of financial empowerment.</p>
<p>I think beautiful post like this one, should, on top of highlighting what needs to be done, come out clearly with what is being done practically on the ideas implementation. That will increase  action rhythm. In the absence of such demonstrations, the posts may just pass as yet another new posts highlighting challenges, without any action recommendation.</p>
<p>One would request development support institutions such as Mastercard Foundation to give a chance to as many financial education players in a market as possible so that each puts best effort in financial education. Scholarship in the case of Equity Foundation is just one good intervention. We at Kenya Financial Education Centre(www.financialeducationcentre.co.ke) have brilliant ideas on how to scale financial education in Kenya especially leveraging on technology the domain where the youth are held spell. Some interventions need only a little financial support and they are good to go. If Mastercard wants to fund financial education in a country, the best, perhaps is to invite ideas based bids to all financial education players and funding is done across the board as we are all aiming at the same goal..</p>
<p>Good perspective Professor and great job at Mastercard Foundation.</p>
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