FINCA Bank Celebrates Global Money Week with Children

Global Money Week is celebrated in 130 countries around the world every year at the end of March. Global Money Week’s purpose is to inform children and young people about what money is, about the importance of saving, how to become an entrepreneur, and how to develop business skills. This year’s Global Money Week’s message is Learn, Save, Earn.

FINCA Bank as an international financial institution is actively involved in the Global Money Week celebration for the third year now. Special brochures and posters were printed and distributed to thousands of children in all the regions of Georgia.

Guided tours around FINCA Bank’s service centers were organized for children, for them to know how the bank works and how financial operations are done. Almost 1,000 children participated in the tours.

“It’s important to constantly inform children about the nature of money, so that they know the importance of saving, and to help them learn to save from a very early age. For this, we created an interactive book last year. This year we adapted the book for children with visual impairment. An Audio Book on financial education has been sent to all regions of Georgia,” Mariam Esebua, Head of Marketing Department at FINCA Bank said.

A public lecture on the importance of money saving was held for the students of the Youth Palace in Tbilisi, where FINCA Bank employees introduced the history of money, how financial institutions function and talked about the significance of saving. Prizes were given to the winners of an entertaining quiz that was organized during the lecture.

FINCA Bank continues different activities to raise awareness in financial education. Fifty FINCA Bank employees are volunteers in the USAID and G-PriEd project, and for the second year already they are organizing lessons on business skills in different schools throughout Georgia.