Budgeting skills for ESL adult learners In January, each class of Metro South Adult Basic Education ESL students in Bloomington, MN, took part in a workshop on budgeting. This week, this is Eden Prairie’s students’ turn to practise prioritising and planning expenses and saving for yearly expenses. It was nice to see participants discussing and…
Using picture cards and toy banknotes makes budgeting and prioritising easier. For example, give a daily income to each group using toy banknotes, and 5 or 6 cards of usual expenses (various food, clothes, soap) and ask them to choose how to spend their income. Then give them one or two cards representing monthly or yearly commitments (rent,…
Financial education programmes for your clients Your target group is struggling to pay yearly expenses. Every year, most of them borrow from informal lenders to be able to pay for the school fees, and some of them also pull their children out of school. You organise a financial literacy workshop focusing on controlling expenses, reducing…
Reflections over 10 years of financial education: an exhibition was shown in Hong Kong and Phnom Penh in 2015 and Kinshasa in 2016 to challenge our views on finance in our lives. This exhibition is now available online: (click on CC for subtitles)