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Financial Literacy for 6-8 years


                                                                  The project team is putting its best efforts to impart essential
                                                                  financial  education  to  Pakistani  school-going  children  (6-8

                                                                  years) for strengthening their money management skills and
                                                                  enhance  their  understanding  of  financial  matters  that  will
                                                                  contribute towards the prosperity of the nation in the long run.
                                                                  Under  this  objective,  NFLP-Y  has  partnered  with  the
                                                                  management  of  Army  Public  School  (APS)  who  highly
                                                                  appreciated the initiative and extended support to facilitate in
                                                                  reaching out to the target audience through their campuses.
                                                                  Thus far, 23,000 students have been trained in 68 campuses of
                                                                  APS  in  23  districts  including  Khuzdar,  Quetta,  D.I.Khan,
                                                                  Bahawalpur, Okara, Multan, Sargodha, Rawalpindi, Islamabad,
                                                                  lahore,  Kharian,  Kasure,  Peshawar,  Kohat,  Sialkot,  Zafarwal,
                                                                  Chawinda,  Pasrur,  Gujranwala,  karachi,  Malir,  Hyderabad,
                                                                  Badin and Abbottabad.

           Primary, Secondary and Higher Level                    Beaconhouse School System has also joined in the initiative.
           Financial Literacy Content Integration                 Accordingly, NFLP-Y and Beaconhouse arranged 4 TOTs on
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                                                                  192 teachers on the content designed for the age group 6-8.
         NFLP-Y  has  also  collaborated  with  Pakistan  Alliance  for   These  teachers  shall  further  impart  awareness  regarding
         Early  Childhood(PAFEC)  to  integrate  financial  literacy   financial  literacy  concepts  among  their  students  in  their
         content  into  Pakistan's  Single  National  Curriculum  at  the   respective campuses.
         primary, secondary and higher levels and further reach out
         to  95000  students  across  the  country  through  capacity
         building of teachers on the financial literacy content.

         In this regard several Curriculum Experts, Subject Experts,
         HODs,  Professors,  Lecturers  and  Financial  Literacy
         Consultants worked together to finalize a proficient training
         manual for teachers. This manual shall facilitate public and
         private  sector  teachers  of  primary,  secondary  and  higher
         education  levels  as  they  further  deliver  financial  literacy
         training to their students. Training of Teachers have been
         successfully  conducted  for  the  targeted  number  of  700
         teachers  of  all  three  levels  from  all  over  Pakistan  in
         collaboration  with  PAFEC  for  primary/secondary  and  for
         higher Level with MANTECH&ARC.

         These  trained  teachers  shall  conduct  training  sessions  in
         their  respective  schools,  colleges  and  universities  to  train
         students on the Financial Literacy content being developed
         as a pilot activity. The purpose of the pilot is to evaluate the
         impact  of  the  content  and  response  of  all  levels  of  the
         educational  sector  in  order  to  include  financial  literacy
         content a part of their curriculum and course content. Till
         date more than 50 thousand students has been trained at all
         the three levels by the trained teachers on financial literacy
         module and soon the set target of 90,000 is expected to be
         achieved successfully.

         PAFEC in collaboration with NIBAF also started an advocacy
         Campaign  to  promote  and  spread  awareness  financial
         literacy  content  integration.  This  campaign  is  based  on
         coverage  of  all  mediums  for  awareness  among  general
         community  with  regards  to  efforts  of  SBP  in  the  area.
         graphical posts highlighting importance of financial literacy
         are shared on social media platforms and public services
         messages are broadcasted on radio channel FM 101 and
         FM 93 across all provinces of the country.
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