Good Return’s parent organisation World Education Australia works with YWCA New South Wales to deliver the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation’s global initiative: ConnectEd. The ConnectEd program provides education and digital skills training opportunities for children and youth in disadvantaged areas; with a focus on reaching young people who are at risk of disengaging,...

In January of 2013, Good Return’s Financial Literacy Specialist joined forces with our Indonesia Program Coordinator to carry out an eight day train the trainer program at CUKK – our microfinance institution partner in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Trainees consisted of 16 CUKK staff members and 18 borrowers, all of whom were there not only to better understand...

The first exchange visit between two Good Return partners happened in the Philippines from 2 December until 4 December 2012. TPC’s (our microfinance institution partner in Cambodia) Chief Operations Officer Mr. Sok Voeurn accompanied me on a visit to SECDEP (our partner in the Philippines) to observe the client training in the field to gain some insights for the...

World Education Australia (our parent organisation) works in partnership with YWCA New South Wales to deliver the ConnectEd program, Alcatel-Lucent Foundation’s global initiative to provide education and digital skills training opportunities for children and youth in disadvantaged areas. In September, a number of Alcatel-Lucent staff took up one of their volunteer...

Kalati is from the ‘Alakifonua centre in Tonga. She retails products that her daughter is able to send her from America, and also uses her loan from SPBD (Good Return’s partner microfinance institution in Tonga and Fiji) to buy more stock for the shop. Her daughter also sends her small amounts of money, as Kalati takes care of her children while she is overseas...

Siunipa of the Vaini branch in Tonga became conscious of her dream to improve her family’s lives after the first Good Return financial literacy class she took. It made her aware that she can actually do something concrete to achieve her dreams. During the sharing, Siunipa said, “My diary helped me to look at my dream, my financial goals, and to do something...