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Aflatoun Talk January 2010 (volume 4, #1)

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Dear Friends,

January greetings from Aflatoun!

Aflatoun Talk wishes all its readers a wonderful new year full of joy and success. This month we are taking a look back at Aflatoun's achievements over 2009, including the programme's outreach to over 540,000 children in 31 countries across the globe.

Major highlights from 2009 include:

Training for Regional Master Trainers: these trainings were conducted in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America in keeping with Aflatoun's commitment to devolve training capacity into the network.

Creation of Aflakit: This series of manuals and supplementary materials guides partner organisations through all the steps of programme implementations and has been translated into four languages: English, Spanish, Arabic and French.

Finalization of the regional workbooks: Currently, the Secretariat distributes regional sets of the Aflatoun workbooks in 4 languages. Today, partner organizations have contextualised the regional Aflatoun Curriculum 33 times, translating it into 20 languages.

"Children and Change 2009" published: this outlines the key findings of Aflatoun's impact assessment studies.

Two new Taskforces formed: Afla-Finance (financial access for Aflatoun Children) and Afla-innovations (new projects and product ideas)

Aflatoun Mid-Campaign meeting held under the auspices of First Lady Suzanne Mubarak and the Ministry of State for Family & population. The three-day meeting brought together over 170 participants from over 50 countries.

NFE curriculum: Material for non-formal Education was developed and is already being used to work with street children, juveniles in jail and other vulnerable children, as well as those in non-formal settings such as micro-finance institutions.

None of this would have been possible without the commitment and hard work of all members of the Aflatoun network: partners, donors, researchers and other stakeholder. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for you hard work and faith in Aflatoun's vision.

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Eureko Achmea Foundation gives grant to Aflatoun Partner!

Many thanks to the Eureko Achmea Foundation for their generous grant to Aflatoun partner in Russia, New Perspectives Foundation. This will enable the Aflatoun programme to start in schools in Russia during the course of this year.

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Congratulations to Sir Fazle Abed for Knighthood

Aflatoun would like to congratulate Fazle Abed, Founder and Chairperson of BRAC, for being appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2010 New Year honours for his work on fighting poverty. Sir Abed is a board member of Aflatoun and his organisation, BRAC, implements the Aflatoun programme in Bangladesh.

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Aflatoun in the Spotlight

Time magazine, in an article entitled "How to teach Kids about Money", examines the different efforts to educate children on financial principles. Aflatoun is mentioned as an organisation that is applying a different approach to conventional financial education.

A new podcast featuring an interview with Jeroo Billimoria is now online at Social Innovations Conversations, in which Jeroo discusses Aflatoun's journey to date.

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The Aflatoun Network Talks

“I visited three schools in the rural areas [of Pakistan]. All the children greeted us with Aflatoun hugs. They were savings and had plans to set u p a small shop. They even give loans to the community for setting up a small business. They also have small kitchen gardens from which they hope to sell the produce. It was wonderful to meet Aflatoun in the field"

Manizeh Bano, Executive Director Sahil, on visiting schools schools in which SSEWA Pak, also an implementing partner in Pakistan, runs the Aflatoun programme.

A final word of Thanks to new Aflatoun partner organizations!

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Aflatoun Talk January 2010 (volume 4, #1)

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Aflatoun Talk August 2010 (volume 4, #8)

Aflatoun Talk July 2010 (volume 4, #7)

Aflatoun Talk June 2010 (volume 4, #6)

Aflatoun Talk May 2010 (volume 4, #5)

Aflatoun Talk April 2010 (volume 4, #4)

Aflatoun Talk March 2010 (volume 4, #3)

Aflatoun Talk February 2010 (volume 4, #2)

Aflatoun Talk December 2009 (Volume 3, #12)

Aflatoun Talk November 2009 (Volume 3, #11)