Three hundred primary school students participated, yesterday, Wednesday, in this city, in a financial education workshop, promoted by the Northeast Regional Directorate of the National Bank of Angola (BNA), within the scope of Global Money Week.
The day consisted of several cost rationalization exercises, essays on the importance of money and savings, and other dynamics that aim to awaken children’s interest in financial literacy, especially the habit of saving.
During the activity, the head of the Supervision and Monitoring sector of the BNA’s Northeast Regional Directorate, Faustino João, stressed that the initiative aims to instill in children the basic tools for cost containment and the culture of saving money, so that in the future be good managers of your finances in the future.
He attributed the financial difficulties that many families currently face to the lack of savings habits and the adoption of consumerist practices, which is why he warned about improving the management of family finances, so as not to compromise the monetary stability of households and the future of their children.
Global Money Week includes, for the 21st and 22nd, the opening of bankitas bank accounts, with a view to integrating the population into the financial system, expected to cover 200 citizens.
Global Money Week, which runs from the 18th to the 23rd of March, is an annual initiative coordinated by the Organization for Economic Development Cooperation (OECD) and involving 176 countries, with the aim of raising awareness among people, especially young people, about literacy financial, in addition to serving as an opportunity to bring together financial, educational, public and private sector institutions, associations and representatives of civil society in favor of financial inclusion.