Video course · 8 lessons
From the first meeting to the year-end share-out: eight lessons for a small group of neighbours.
Downloads arrive by email the minute you pay, and the merch is printed to order.
From the first meeting to the year-end share-out: eight lessons for a small group of neighbours.
Video course · 8 lessons
From the first meeting to the year-end share-out: eight lessons for a small group of neighbours.
Download as soon as you pay. Yours to keep.
PDF · 20 pages
Ruled pages for every member’s savings, with columns for the date, the amount and a running total.
One sheet for each meeting: who came, what was put in, what was lent and what was paid back.
A plain set of rules to fill in together, with blanks for the meeting day, the amounts and the loans.
A card for every loan, with the amount, the date and each payment back, ready to cut out.
My designs, printed to order and shipped by Printful.
Newsletter
A short letter every Sunday from the village: one thing from the ledger, one tip and one job for this week.
I live in a village near Mbale in Uganda, and for twelve years I have kept the ledger for a savings group of twenty-five neighbours. We meet every week under a mango tree, in plastic chairs, with a metal box that has three padlocks. I learned from the women who began the group before me, and from many mistakes in a school exercise book.
Now I teach it. The videos are filmed under the tree and in the yard, in plain words, with the box, the ledger and a pencil. What I sell is the paper that makes a group work: ledger pages, meeting sheets, a rules template, loan cards and a household budget workbook, and two video courses, one for starting a group and one for the budget. I do not hold anyone’s money and I do not lend any. I teach you to keep your own group’s books honestly.
Short answers on downloads, the course and the merch.
After checkout you receive an email with a download link, and the same link is shown on the confirmation page. Every file is a PDF made to print on ordinary A4 or Letter paper, or to copy by hand into an exercise book.
You pay once and the lessons appear in your account straight away. Watch them in order, as many times as you like, on a phone or a laptop. Each lesson is short, so a group can watch one together at a meeting.
Yes: tees, totes, mugs, prints and stickers with my own designs. Each is printed to order and shipped by Printful, and the cost and delivery time show at checkout.
Fifteen to thirty is common, but you can begin with as few as five or six neighbours you trust. The first video says how to choose them, and the rules template helps you agree on everything at the first meeting.