Safaricom Newsroom14 Juli 2021

Becoming a Disciplined Saver. #SafaricomNews

The most dominant story of the past 12 months has been about the pain of the pandemic.

Economically, close to two million people lost their jobs in the first three months of the pandemic alone.

In April, an interesting statistic arose from analyses of the spending and saving patterns of Kenyans with bank accounts: they had managed to stash away more than KES463 billion.

Savings normally become available once you have taken care of your fixed expenses.

The question usually is: after you have taken care of your bills, what do you do with the rest of your hard-earned cash? While it’s nice to go out and treat yourself, do you try to save or invest some of that money?

Setting aside some money can seem impossible if you can barely make ends meet or are out of a job.

For Felista Wangari, the founder of the Facebook group 52 Weeks Savings Challenge, saving was part of her culture and the reason she founded the group, which won an award from Facebook in 2018.

“Having grown up in family where savings was a culture, the value of putting money aside was engrained in me. So I decided to set up the 52-weeks savings challenge to help other people to stay consistent to their goal as well as learn how to manage their money better,” she says.

There's just so much about money that we need to know and that we don't learn in school. In today’s podcast we share some practical tips on how you can become a disciplined saver.

If you aren’t already saving, you can start by implementing some of our tips and evaluating how your (long-term and short-term) wants and needs fit with your income and goals.

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