OLBIOS CORRESPONDENT BOTSWANA & THE NETHERLANDS

Katja Visser is a qualified social and financial educator whose experience spans all the five continents; she works in the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Peru, Uganda, Nepal, Guatemala and will start working and she will going to live in Botswana soon. In all these countries Katja works with disadvantaged children, teenagers and young adults through her foundation StartUp4kids passing on skills in financial management assisting them to develop their own small enterprises. This training teaches disadvantaged individuals to develop their social skills and to open their own businesses, how to develop business plans, make budgets, and take care for the environment.