For the people who build the world.
Practical financial literacy — ten modules, three languages.
§ 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 by Rehaan Chowdhary and supported by Bandhan Bank Ltd.
§ 02 · Where we work
Ten modules, taught in the rooms the community already trusts.
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
We’re compiling the figures from our first year — students who completed all ten modules of Knowing Your Money, savings accounts opened, and facilitators trained under the CRP Model. They’ll be published, in full, with our first annual report. Coming soon.
§ 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.
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
“People have to be able to face a financial situation. They have to have money of their own.”
মানুষকে আর্থিক পরিস্থিতির মোকাবেলা করতে হবে, তাদের কাছে টাকা থাকতে হবে।
Shankari Purkait Mondal · Community Resource Person, Baruipur · spoken in Bengali
§ 06 · Gallery
The classrooms, the materials, the people in the room.
