Poverty

Financial Educational Initiative

In Tift and Colquitt counties, due to financial instability and lack of home-buyer education, many people live in sub-standard housing and struggle to pay their rent. The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension and Archway Partnership worked with Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice to create a new Family and Consumer Science Extension agent position to provide bilingual financial education for Tift and Colquitt counties. Georgia Appleseed created financial education brochures in Spanish and English as well as a Banking Tool Kit for banking immigrant communities. Extension began to distribute these resources along with providing financial education classes in collaboration with local agencies in Tift and Colquitt counties. In three months, 3,800 financial education brochures and seven Banking Tool Kits have been distributed. (2008)

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