ACCA and PSBB School collaborate to implement Financial Literacy programme in Chennai

Chennai, 27 March 2023: Financial literacy is a vital life ability that’s very important for making a financially inclusive society. That’s why ACCA members in India have voluntarily created a monetary literacy program that helps youngsters turn into conscious of the significance of managing cash.

By partnering with the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Schools (PSBB) School in Chennai, the imaginative and prescient of equipping youngsters with Financial Literacy, a life ability instructional program for colleges has been became a actuality. Over 500 Grade VI college students in the three branches of PSBB have taken half in this system throughout 2022-23 and accomplished the primary module on the Evolution of Money.

At an occasion in Chennai to have a good time the profitable completion of the pilot undertaking, ACCA President Joseph Owolabi thanked the scholars, lecturers, companions, and ACCA members concerned.

He stated: ‘One of the best strengths of ACCA India is how members assist one another and their communities. This program has solely been attainable due to their ardour, dedication, and enthusiasm.’

The FL modules set out to develop monetary confidence in younger minds and to assist center faculty college students really feel optimistic about their future as a result of financially conscious younger persons are empowered to make good choices and evolve as higher customers. Through video games, discussions, actions, and tales that fashioned a part of the course content material, college students developed an understanding of how cash developed from a barter system to plastic and now digital cash. They discovered about forms of earnings and bills, and about wants and desires, to allow them to handle cash higher by adopting optimistic habits.

By implementing FL as a part of its curriculum, the PSBB School has created a useful legacy, serving to a technology to assimilate these primary monetary ideas that can assist them as people, their households, and society at giant. We’re grateful for the help and collaborative effort of the lecturers and our Approved Learning Partner, ANSA.