Financial education. Helping girls build better futures.

Aflatoun's social and financial education empowers children and young people worldwide to make a positive change in their lives and communities, enabling them to create a sustainable future. It teaches children and young people about their rights and responsibilities, encourages them to save money and resources, and start social and financial enterprises, turning dependence into independence.

Aflatoun's educational program was refined over ten years of rigorous research globally. Following a ten country global pilot project, the program has been scaled to 116 countries, reaching 4.1 million children and young people each year. Aflatoun International creates high-quality curricula, for different age groups, which can be contextualised to local needs and specific circumstances, and are implemented by its partners. In addition, educators are provided with training to teach the Aflatoun child-centred, active learning method, which can be taught both in classrooms and out of school.

Aflatoun's work is grounded in the belief that all children around the world, including the most vulnerable ones, should have access to high-quality social and financial education allowing them not only to survive but thrive in the 21^st century. 

Plan International UK strives to advance children's rights and equality for girls all over the world. The organization recognizes the power and potential of every single child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it's girls who are most affected.

As an independent development and humanitarian charity, Plan International works alongside children, young people, supporters and partners to tackle the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. Plan International supports children's rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enables children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. The organization drives changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using its reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 80 years Plan International has been building powerful partnerships for children, and they are active in over 70 countries.

Credit Suisse and Room to Read's relationship began in 2005 with post-tsunami efforts in Sri Lanka and India. Over 2008-09 our program support focused on schools refurbishment and libraries. Since 2010, Credit Suisse has been the primary funder of Room to Read's Literacy Instruction pilots in Laos, Sri Lanka and Vietnam and supporting the 'Accelerator Program'.

Credit Suisse also provides free office space for a small Development Team in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney, enabling Room to Read to invest more of its funding directly into programs. In 2017, Room to Read joined the Financial Education Program as one of our signature partners.

CamfedCamfed plays a catalytic role in the transformation of young people's lives by providing a holistic package of support, including formal education for girls at school, health awareness, and business and leadership training for young women who have left school.

Camfed tackles the complex interplay between poverty, gender and power that keeps girls locked in a cycle of lower educational attainment and vulnerability to sexual exploitation. The strategies used include securing girls' entitlement to education and protection: firstly, by ensuring that excluded girls have the opportunity and support to enrol in and succeed at school; and secondly, by working with school governance structures and local authorities to ensure that these are gender-responsive and act to protect girls' welfare and entitlements.

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty that places special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of disease, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.

CARE's education programs take a comprehensive approach to addressing the complex interrelated challenges in this area by promoting and facilitating discussion between parents, teachers and other members of the community to overcome barriers to education.

CARE also works alongside governments and partner organizations to bring about systemic change. Credit Suisse began working with CARE in 1989 through the Americas Foundation and then within the Global Education Initiative in Peru and Tanzania in 2008.

Plan International UK strives to advance children's rights and equality for girls all over the world.

Plan International recognises the power and potential of every single child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it's girls who are most affected.  

As an independent development and humanitarian charity, we work alongside children, young people, supporters and partners to tackle the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children's rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity.

We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 80 years we have been building powerful partnerships for children, and we are active in over 70 countries.

Teach For All is a global network that aims to expand educational opportunity internationally by increasing and accelerating the impact of independent social enterprises that enlist their nations' most promising future leaders in addressing educational need.

Teach For All was launched in 2007 as response to demand from entrepreneurs around the world seeking to start Teach For America and Teach First-like enterprises in their own countries. These enterprises provide a pipeline of high-caliber teachers who go above and beyond traditional expectations to lead their students to significant academic achievement, despite the challenges of poverty and the limited capacity of their countries' school systems.

Teach For All increases and accelerates the impact of these programs – in the immediate term on student achievement and over the long term on their countries' broader education systems – by providing direct support services to its partner organizations and by fostering a powerful network among them.

Latin American countries rank the lowest in the world in terms of the quality of education (World Economic Forum 2008 survey). Worldfund's goal is to raise the quality and relevance of education in Latin America – the key to transforming lives and breaking the cycle of poverty. Their aim is for every child in Latin America to have access to a high-quality education.

Worldfund focuses on the key area which can have the greatest impact: leadership at the school level. They deliver training and ongoing support to teachers and principals from underserved schools in Latin America, fundamentally impacting the system from the bottom up.