A story to live
46 chapters of Verena's life. You choose, you see what follows, you learn why.
We find the money lessons each student is missing, teach them in two hours, and make them stick with Saath, before a mistake can cost them.
The mission
Most adults learn money by getting it wrong. For a student from a low-income family, adulthood begins right after Grade 12, with no university years to learn in and no one at home who has done it before. One mistake can cost months of savings. So we teach the lessons two years early, in a classroom, where a wrong answer costs nothing.
How it works
Four steps, from a fifteen-question test to a habit that lasts.
The Money Readiness Test, adapted from the S&P Global Financial Literacy Survey and rewritten for a sixteen-year-old. Every wrong option is a real money mistake.
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Question 1 · Warm up
Meera has ₹800 this month. She can't afford everything. What should she pay for first?
Results go through our AI model, topic by topic, student by student. It finds where the class is weakest, so no minute of teaching goes where it isn't needed.
Illustrative class · 32 students × 6 topics
Each student sees their own score privately. Then an 80-minute course on earning, borrowing and staying safe, with most of the time on what the class found hardest.
Day 2 · 120 minutes
Two sessions are easy to forget. Saath turns the lesson into practice: every student leaves with a pocket handbook and an app where every choice changes the money.
Meet Saath ↓Verena, 19 · Pune
It is the 18th. She opens her banking app: ₹350 left, twelve days to go.
Flagship · Live at saath.cc
Adults learn money from failure.
Our students can't afford to fail. So Verena does it for them.
18years old
The lesson
Drag through Verena's life. From a first resume to retirement, every step in between.
46 chapters of Verena's life. You choose, you see what follows, you learn why.
Ask anything by typing, speaking or snapping a document. Answers cite the guide they came from.
Bank, tax and insurance forms read line by line, before anyone signs.
A budget that puts savings first. Bills, goals, and what is safe to spend today. It stays on their phone.
Field notes · The first pilot
August 2026 · Pune & Mumbai
102 students in Grades 9 to 12 sat our pilot paper.
88 of them travel to school by bus or private car.
91 own a laptop or tablet.
These were well-resourced students.
They scored 81% on careful reading and everyday sums.
And 49% on how money behaves outside a classroom.
73 scored 80% or better across Parts A to C.
30 of those same students scored half or less on Part D.
Reading a question closely is a school skill. These students have it.
If they sit at 49%, the gap for students with fewer advantages is wider.
That is the gap we exist to close.
The movement
We started our own Interact club to take the work into more classrooms. Its members run sessions alongside the core team, so students learn from people close to their own age.
Affiliated with
102 students, two cities, one paper.
More than sixty members, one initiative.
Our biggest project yet, live and free.
Pune and Mumbai, with Hindi and Marathi editions of the test.
The core team
For schools & NGOs
The full two-day programme for one group of students, with no obligation to continue.
Day 1 · Find out
Day 2 · Learn
Nothing to prepare on your side.
Privacy. No student is named anywhere. Each student sees only their own result. Your organisation is never identified without written approval.
Language. English today, with Marathi and Hindi in preparation. If your students learn in either, we would rather wait than test them in English.