Abeywickrema attends YouthSave confab

HNB's Deputy General Manager Chandula Abeywickrema has been invited to serve in the Expert Advisory Board of the YouthSave based in Washington.

Chandula Abeywickrema

YouthSave is a joint collaboration between Save the Children Centre for Social Development USA, the New America Foundation Washington and CGAP and MasterCard Foundation, USA. Abeywickrema will be among the ten member International Advisory Board.

Abeywickrema has earned a reputation in Asia as an Expert and a Specialist in creating financial solutions in Microfinance and Financial Inclusion.

He is the current Chairman of the Banking With The Poor Network, which is Asias largest Microfinance network.

He travels widely and has been invited to many major financial inclusions and Microfinance Forums as an Expert in the industry as a specialist keynote speaker.

The first of its kind project, YouthSave is designed to find new ways to help low-income youth adopt behaviours that will lead to long-term health and productivity.

The project draws its rationale from a growing body of evidence which suggests that helping youth build savings in formal financial institutions may be a high-leverage method for contributing to these goals.