Kathmandu, July 29:
Entrepreneurs Nepal (EN) is preparing to
launch a Financial Teach (Fin-Teach) programme with an aim to increase
financial literacy among the youth and adolescents.
It
said that the organisation had designed a school-level curriculum for the
programme.
“EN has worked in the area of
entrepreneurship for more than four years in the past, and we found that most
of the Nepali youth were failed in enterprise building due to poor
understanding of financial aspects of the business. Therefore, we have come up
with a programme to enhance financial literacy,” said Asmita Adhikari, Director
of the Fin-Teach.
She said that according to an EN study, most
of the youth entrepreneurs failed in their businesses and left it because of
poor financial literacy, and her organisation had decided to implement the
entrepreneurship and financial literacy programmes together.
EN is set to launch a 2-year project for
financial literacy. The Rs. 150 million project will promote financial literacy
in entrepreneurs as well as college and school level students from class 6 to
12.
A curriculum for 15 days, 1 month and 3
months has been developed targeting the same section of society.
The curriculum is the result of our
two-year’s hard work, and it will be a milestone in financial literacy sector,
said Manoj Gyawali, a banker.
“We will teach school students about how to
save money and where to invest the savings. If we could make students literate
about the financial matters, they will make their family aware of it,” he said.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 30 July 2018.
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