Financial Literacy Training the Trainers: Giving Youth a financial head start

Financial Literacy Training the Trainers:
Giving Youth a Financial Head Start

24-25 November 2014

Workshop highlights:

• Highly participatory
• Packed with training examples and programmes easy to use with your students
• Behaviour focused and 100% youth-centred
• Specific to Cambodia teenagers and young adults
• Empowering: your trainers learn to manage their own money to be able to train your students and practise training during the workshop
• Option: let your trainers join our 3 day “Financial Literacy Training the Trainers – helping vulnerable families” to learn more about financial literacy.
• Free access to our online training database.

Does your university or learning centre provide academic knowledge to young adults but lack expertise in helping them manage their money? Do your students struggle resisting peer pressure and consumption appeal? Do they ask money from their already financially vulnerable families? Would you like to equip them with basic knowledge and skills to make the most of their first salary once they graduate? Would you like to offer practical programmes to your Alumni?

Course objective:
Participants experience training examples and awareness builders as youth and as facilitators. They get motivated to manage their money and to share what they have learned with their students. They identify what tools work best for their life style and how to implement them effectively in order to better control expenses and debt and to save (budget, tracking, expense categories, goals setting, spending limit…). They identify the challenges that youth face with money, especially behaviour, social pressure, family support, life decisions (study vs. work, renting a new home, equipment purchase, getting married…), ethics and scams. They analyse what methods would best empower their students. They can use training examples straight away once back to their office.

Who should attend?

• Educational centres and school teachers,
• Local and International NGO staff,
• Social workers,
• Community workers,

Workshop detailed programme:

Day 1: Discover our financial tool-kit for youth

In this first day, trainers experience our “Money Starter” programme as youth.

• Analyse the role of money in our lives and our feelings about money,
• Understand why it is important to manage money and what happens if we don't,
• Get a clear understanding of how debts grow and impact future expenses
• Analyse how we choose (emotions, pressure…)
• Practise using our money management tool box: limits and reminders
• Tips to spend wisely (includes mobile phone, clothes…)
• Analyse how money impacts our relationships with others and how to build sound ethical values
• How money impacts our community and environment: building financial responsibility
• Practise setting and save for goals
• Build good habits
• Analyse how to take decision and finance a project through a case
• Identify how to support family in a sustainable way
• Reflect and define wealth

Day 2: Help students make the most of their future income

In this second day, participants practise facilitating “Money Starters” and learn further about communication, risks, values…

• Review key points
• Practise sessions: participants start drafting their training plan, select a training activity from day 1 and facilitate it.
• Feedback on practise sessions,
• Communicating with future spouse/managing money together
• Long term savings: life cycle and retirement
• More on banks and where to save
• Managing life events: risks, unemployment
• Growing our main assets: ourselves
• Action plan, course evaluation, certificates and group photo

Trainer’s profile: Sophie Paine (a+b=3- Founder and Managing Director)
Sophie holds a DECF (Qualified Accountant), a Master degree in business studies (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris), a post-graduate in finance and banking (Paris-Dauphine) and a diploma in Islamic Finance (ETHICA). She has worked in financial management and accounting in international corporations and non-profit organisations for more than 15 years. She has facilitated numerous training workshops around Asia, and in USA and Africa. Since 2005, a+b=3’s programmes have reached more than 8,000 people. Our mission is to help people make better decisions with money to have a more harmonious and healthier life. This workshop will be co-facilitated in Khmer by a VBNK trainer. www.aandbmake3.com

Our Approach:

participatory, group activities, case studies, training demonstration and practise sessions. Our training workshops put finance in context and include behaviour and social issues. They are only one step in our endeavour to contribute to poverty alleviation: participants will also have access to our training database and technical review notes, plus support to implement their own training programme.

Why you can’t miss this workshop:

• Learn how to help your students get a head start and manage their money wisely,
• Learn how to include financial education in context and motivate youth ,
• Encourage youth to reflect and internalise ethical behaviour,
• Gain confidence by practising facilitating,
• Help your students build a sound relationship with money and good financial habits,
• Enrich your curriculum with practical and meaningful workshops: go beyond teaching how to get a job and income and educate how to use this future income to impact your students’ lives, their community and country. 

Educate tomorrow’s parents, citizens and leaders!

REGISTER TODAY

Date:          24-25 November 2014 at 8:00-17:00 (including a 90 minute lunch break)

Fee:            US$130 (lunch, refreshment, training material and certificate from a+b=3 included) 
Venue:        VBNK, #23, Street 554, Boung Kok 1, Toul Kork , PO Box 2307, Phnom Penh

Language:  English and Khmer. Information in Khmer Tel: 023 885 805, 023 885 815

Deadline for registration: November 8th 2014 Early bird discount: October 25th 2014 ($20 off). Group discount (three and more participants – please ask us). Additional Bundle discount with Financial literacy for families (19-21 November) and/or Microbusiness (26-28 November): contact us.

Inquiries : info@aandbmake3.com  REGISTER ONLINE