Letshego drives financial inclusion in Mozambique
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
The Letshego BlueBox is a tool for advancing the financial inclusion agenda of Letshego, and of the Government of Mozambique. The BlueBox is a means by which Letshego gives tools to agents and empowers them with basic knowledge on how to roll out the model within their communities.
It includes tools that give them financial education and awareness through apps and enables them to register customers into a financial ecosystem in a simple, quick and affordable manner. Agents can then pass this education onto their customers. Customers will save, make payments and have access to credit by using basic mobile phones.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...