Dreams and credit… poster seen in HK (Central): “take a credit and make your dreams come true.” Then obviously financial education is a hard sell… because it appeals to rationality, and not emotion like financial ads, and because basically financial education says that dreams are not going to come true magically and easily, but through…
Half day training of trainers for our Hong Kong partner Enrich’s Ambassadors and Graduates: Migrant Workers can instill good financial habits to their families, relatives, friends and communities when they come back home for holiday or for good, or remotely before. Our TOT focused on 1 key message: to solve a problem, we first need…
Reviewing and fine-tuning the content of Enrich’s financial education workshops on money and family and how to set up a business.(Photo: enrich) Raul, Cecile, Sophie, Betty, Amalia, Pritya
Second year training at IKTMC for CDF project. The morning workshop with students was followed by a session for mentors on how youth learn about money, our role as adult, basic tools like budgeting and quick insights on Islamic principles on money. Morning priorities Using the same skills to prioritise expenses and write a budget…
Whole day meeting with Enrich’s team, our long time partner in Hong Kong, offering programmes for Migrant Workers.
Short workshop with a group of IDPMPS’ students (Hong Kong): we focused on planning and budgeting skills, taking a simple example: a birthday. This was also an opportunity to work in group.
Wrap up workshop with ITKMC students enrolled in the CDF project. Through a story, we reviewed the main values and do’s and don’ts of finance from an Islamic perspective. Students also shared what they have learned and implemented throughout these three years.
Today, IKTMC and its sister school IDPMPS launched the second CDF project, to help students break the cycle of poverty and study at university level. a+b=3 ran a short introduction talk on attitude towards money management and simple tools like budgeting, tracking and saving for specific projects. planning game
Third year training with IKTMC CDF project.After a review of the first workshops students brainstormed on workplace cases and identified their rights as employee. then their duties. They learned the main differences between Islamic banking and conventional banking, as well as insurance and “takaful” After a zakat calculation, students had a close look at how…
Tonight we displayed a poster exhibition “Finance in pictures” to reflect on our 10 years as financial educator and challenge what finance often takes for granted.