Periagoge
Scenario

How to balance financial obligations across continents

I send money to support my nephew in Kenya for school but my own children here need things and I feel torn between obligations to extended family and my immediate household.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The economics of communal responsibility stretch thin when resources must serve both immediate family needs and extended family survival.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African communal parenting traditions?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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