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By Megha Rana The demand for financial literacy in Africa is huge.  The number of programs is small.  For those that do exist, the goal is to educate those in

By Megha Rana Financial education programs for the poor cannot be normative, meaning they cannot be structured around the behavior of a Western, financially stable person. Financial programs are often

By Megha Rana Gender stereotypes are generalizations and/or assumptions made in regards to roles that women and men play, respectively, in a culture. While they differ from culture to culture

By Megha Rana East African homes, businesses, and industries have been forced to live with irregular and costly power due to inefficient state-owned electricity firms that follow often unsuccessful government

By NTS staff Kenyan culture has been highly masculine for generations. Hofstede Insights, an online publication which tracks national culture through factors such as power distance and individualism, rates Kenya

By NTS staff In Kenya, sexual violence remains a traumatic norm for women, with men being the perpetrators in the majority of cases. Today, nearly half of married women have

By Jones Obiria What do you do when the government closes schools for a month with only a few days’ notice?  When students who attend your school, depend on you,

By NTS staff with research by Vivian Msafiri In Kenya today, women struggle greatly with financial independence. According to the World Bank, two-thirds of the unbanked population are women. This