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receiving each day a report from a local school located in Shifting to the higher gear, the project didn’t confine itself
an under privileged area in Gawadar sends us in awe, and to any limits instead it kept floor open for partnerships and
is enough to gauge the impact of this project. The teacher joint ventures. The journey that was initiated in 2018 has
informed us that local clay pot vendors were almost taken now been taken forward with the help of more than 450
aback when the inspired students after attending financial partners who realized and praised the thought behind the
literacy workshop arranged by NFLP-Y rushed to buy initiative. Just in this year, through one of our
Gulaks (clay pots for saving money). This sudden rise in partnerships, empowerment of nearly 7000 girls was
demand of Gulaks led to the shortage of the product in made possible via provision of basic financial literacy.
the area. Selected students who had successfully completed the
financial literacy course by NFLP-Y were invited to
Islamabad from Balochistan along their families, where
SBP’s Deputy Governor, Ms. Sima Kamil, honored
these girls with certificates and words of appreciation.
Moreover, State Bank of Pakistan has also partnered
with JazzCash. Under this partnership. PomPak – Learn
to Earn is integrated into the new JazzCash app. Now
around 36 million JazzCash users can directly access
PomPak from their JazzCash app.
Making headway with the vision of turning Pakistan into
financially inclusive and stable country 2021 was a year
full of accomplishments with excellence; clears the blur
off, revealing brighter future prospects. National
Financial literacy Program for Youth is determined and
hopes to keep stepping forward with the same zeal and
zest until it knows, it has reached the intended mark.