Keep Costs Low

There are never enough resources. For an initiative to grow quickly and organically, costs must be low. For Saving for Change in Mali, support totaled $1,500 per village, which included training several groups and then progressively less frequent monitoring over three years. The documented impact justifies the modest cost—a decrease in chronic hunger, increased assets, more savings, reaching the poorest, and word-of-mouth replication within the village and neighboring villages as volunteers from established groups trained groups on their own account.