Preliminary data in Kenya suggest that the combination of safe savings and educational meetings with friends in safe spaces improve the lives of girls in many ways.
Girls who participated had more friends, a greater ability to get around on their own, and less biased attitudes about women.
Further, they had greater financial literacy and savings and improved talks with parents on financial issues.
Specific findings include:
- Compared to non-participants, participants were more likely to have been to a bank, to have used a bank’s services, and to be saving on a weekly basis.
- Participants were at least two times as likely as non-participants to have discussed money management issues with a parent.
- Participants were significantly more likely than non-participants to say that they can go alone to the market, school, a friend’s home, and a youth group meeting.
- Participants were significantly less likely than non-participants to agree that “Girls are not as good as boys in school.” Similarly, participants were significantly less likely than non-participants to agree that some girls deserve to be raped because of how they behave.
- Participants were significantly more likely than non-participants to know at least one contraceptive method and to know that HIV can be transmitted through sexual intercourse.
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