This booklet is a motivational and instructional material for individuals to form and operate a savings group by adopting the habit of saving money regularly.

It is intended to motivate individuals to save regularly and more effectively as members of a savings group. Encouraged by NGOs and supporting agencies, savings groups (self-help groups) have become an effective part of the community development process in many regions of Asia-Pacific countries.

The material was developed for learners at self-learning level. Combined usage with another AJP booklet Micro-Credit is recommended.

The Literacy Clip Art (LCA), a collection of more than 900 illustrations covering 8 categories relevant to literacy materials, such as 'health, sanitation and nutrition', 'income generation', or 'education', is designed to serve as an instrument for local facilitators to develop their own learning materials easily and effectively at grassroots level. According to distinct cultural differences, the illustrations are divided into two sub-regions: South Asia and South East Asia. LCA is produced in two different formats: CD-ROM (Windows) and book format. While the CD-ROM provides high-quality digital illustrations for Desktop Publishing (DTP), the book version is for manual production process, such as tracing, duplicating, or copying in a village where no computer is available.

The second in the PLANET series, "Forest Conservation" deals with another crucial world issue. This package also consists of an animation video, a poster and a booklet.

Story - "Mina's Village and the Forest" -
While Mina's family is in the forest, fire breaks out. Mina's family decide to take care of Lolo, the baby monkey, who lost his home and family due to the forest fire. Sanath, the environmentalist, visits Mina's village and invites the villagers to the field to talk about the forest. Having realized the importance of the forest, Mina and the villagers decide to plant trees in the burned field. Will Lolo be able to get back to the forest and see his own family again?

The first of the PLANET series is about "Water Pollution", which is one of the most crucial issues in the world. The package consists of an animation video, a poster and a booklet.

Story - "Mina's Village and the River" -
While continuing to attend literacy class, Mina is living happily with her family. Her village life seems peaceful as ever, yet some changes in their environment begin to affect their daily life. One evening, Mina's family get food poisoning from eating polluted river fish. Later that evening, a heavy rainstorm hits the village, and water from the polluted river flows into the well. Having taken medicine together with unboiled well water, the family's health condition worsens.

Mina, having learnt the causes of her family's illness, decides to improve the village environment. Moved by Mina's environmental activism, even her mean neighbour starts to help her, along with Mina's family and friends. A year later, as a result of the villagers' efforts, the river water becomes clean again.

This video introduces the important role of literacy in daily life through Mina, a woman living in a rural village in Asia. The situations illiterate people face and their difficulties are depicted to encourage them to learn reading and writing and at the same time to raise literate people's awareness of the problem of illiteracy.

"Mina Smiles" is produced in collaboration with UNESCO and specialists of literacy and animation in 17 Asian/Pacific countries. The English version is distributed to concerned organizations worldwide to encourage production and dissemination of vernacular editions, thereby contributing to the "Education for All" UNESCO initiative.

It is a set of a manual on how to make and play puppets, a puppet play script, and real puppets. The manual explains important role of puppet in generating motivation among people and in conveying messages to the learners of literacy programmes, how to make puppets in a simple way with locally available resources like paper and bamboo, and how to handle them. The script tells a story of a monster representing illiteracy and a family in a poor village which implies importance of literacy against poverty and harassment.