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Jeroo Billimoria

Founder, Aflatoun

International Development Through Youth
30 minutes, 13.8mb, recorded 2009-09-24
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Jeroo Billimoria

Jeroo Billimoria believes that international development starts with fostering children’s social and financial awareness. In this audio interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman, Billimoria talks about how her organization, Aflatoun, provides education on these matters to children ages 6 to 14. She discusses how her organization has grown to reach more than 540,000 young people in 31 countries. She talks about how the organization works with partners, ensures the quality of its curricula around the world, and works to move such curricula into mainstream schools. Billimoria also shares challenges, course corrections, and the organization’s vision for the next five years. Her work adds an important new component to international development work.


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Jeroo Billimoria is founder and executive director of Aflatoun, an organization dedicated to social and financial education for primary school children across the world. The organization focuses on two key areas: children’s rights and the encouragement of savings and other positive financial habits among young people. Billimoria is a serial social entrepreneur who has founded six organizations. In 2003, she moved to Amsterdam to found Child Helpline International, and it was through this and her work at MELJOL in India that she began to experiment with the Aflatoun concept.

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This free podcast is from our Design For Change series.

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  • Post-production audio engineer: Sheela Sethuraman
  • Website editor: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • Series producer: Ashkon Jafari