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

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

10-11 October 2016

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
• 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 learn how to better control expenses and debt and to save. They identify the challenges that youth face with money, especially behaviour, social pressure, family support, life decisions (study vs. work, equipment purchase …), 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:

Strongly recommended: online pre-course “learn to better manage money” available in English and French

Day 1: Discover our financial literacy workshop for youth
In this first day, trainers experience our “Money Starter” programme as youth.
- Introduction and objectives :  what are the issues faced by youth and how to address them- How youth learn about money- Training methods: introduction to participatory method- Discover the youth programme like… a youth:

• Introduction: what is money for us?
• Shopping game:  analyse what expenses are necessary or unnecessary; realise that money is about choices and priorities.
• Practise setting priorities with a simple example.
• Practise prioritising and anticipating expenses: introduction to budget.
• Setting goals and saving for them
• Get a clear understanding of how debts grow and impact future expenses
• Nurturing a responsible relation with our parents about money
• Friends and money: focus on ethics
• Helping our parents: business bookkeeping basics

Day 2: Practise facilitating
In this second day, participants practise facilitating “Money Starters” and learn further about communication, risks, values…

• Review key points
• Practise sessions: participants select a training activity from day 1 and facilitate it.
• Feedback on practise sessions,
• Training tips and do's and dont's of financial education
• 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:          10 and 11 October 2016 8:00-17:00 (including a 90 minute lunch break)

Fee:            US$40 (lunch, refreshment, training material and certificate from a+b=3 included)
Venue:        Enfants du Mekong  Centre-Sisophon, Sereisophon District, BanteayMeanchey Province

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

Deadline for registration: October 4, 2016

Inquiries : info@aandbmake3.com  REGISTER ONLINE