85,000 Low-income Youth Open Savings Accounts through YouthSave

The YouthSave project announced new results from a five-year program designed to increase saving and asset building among youth in developing countries. According to a press release published by New America on behalf of the YouthSave project, which is a collaboration between New America, the Center for Social Development, CGAP, the Mastercard Foundation, and Save the Children, "85,000 low-income youth in four countries, Nepal, Kenya, Ghana and Colombia, have opened savings accounts" under the program. For more information about this initiative, you can read the full press release here, or visit the YouthSave website.