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Practical financial literacy — ten modules, three languages.

A Knowing Your Money workshop · West Bengal

§ 01  ·  What this is

The Prosperity Project teaches practical money skills — bank accounts, budgeting, debt, savings, scam protection, digital payments, emergency planning — to people the financial system has historically ignored. The flagship curriculum, Knowing Your Money, is ten modules grounded in real interviews, taught to women in West Bengal — delivered with Bandhan-Konnagar and supported by Bandhan Bank Ltd.

§ 02  ·  Where we work

Ten modules, taught in the rooms the community already trusts.

A participant in West Bengal during a workshop
West Bengal · India

Women in West Bengal

Workshops in Bengali and Hindi, run in the halls a community already trusts — so far in Baruipur, near Kolkata. A cohort of fifty or more women works through the ten modules together, and the learning carries on in follow-up sessions, several of them over video call. Some students have since come back to facilitate.

§ 03  ·  The work, in numbers

Across [ YEAR ], [ N ] students completed all ten modules of Knowing Your Money across [ N ] villages in [ DISTRICTS ]. [ N% ] opened a savings account during Module 04. [ N ] graduates have returned as facilitators under the CRP Model. The next cohort begins in [ MONTH YEAR ].

Full impact report Final 2025 figures audited by [ AUDITOR ] · January 2026
A facilitator leading the cohort through a module
A facilitator leads the cohort through a module, the curriculum on screen behind.

§ 04  ·  How a workshop runs

Ten modules, fifty women, one room the community already trusts — and follow-up that continues after.

We work with partners who already have a hall, a livelihood programme, or a self-help group running. A cohort of [ fifty or more ] women works through the ten modules of Knowing Your Money together; what follows is shaped around them — follow-up sessions, several over video call, that return to whatever a student still needs, with her progress tracked along the way. Facilitators are drawn from the same community, many of them former students. Sessions run in Bengali and Hindi.

A methodThe CRP Model

Students complete the curriculum themselves, then return as facilitators — so the work travels in a familiar voice and stays after the founder leaves the room.

§ 05  ·  Stories from the cohort

A graduate of the Knowing Your Money curriculum
[ A line from a graduate — in her own words ][ QUOTE · TRANSLATION ]

[ The same line, in Bengali ]

[ Name ]  ·  Module 02 graduate  ·  spoken in Bengali

§ 06  ·  Gallery

The classrooms, the materials, the people in the room.

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