Consistent with its commitment to promote financial literacy and inclusion in Nigeria, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in collaboration with Access Bank Plc is to commemorate the 2017 Global Money Week.
Titled: ‘Learn. Save. Earn’ with a series of educational programmes, the event is to raise awareness and improve the capabilities of young people to make sound decisions when it comes to financial matters.
The knowledge sharing sessions will hold from March 27 to March 31, 2017 across all NSE’s offices in Nigeria.
A statement issued by NSE explained that “It will see its employees mentoring young people on how money works, saving, investing, creating livelihood, gaining employment and entrepreneurship. Other activities for the week will include a Closing Gong ceremony at the Exchange, excursions to the trading floor, interactive session with executive management of the Exchange”.
Global Money Week, a global movement to raise awareness of the importance of financial education and financial inclusion for children and youth is led by Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), a non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam.
According to Pai Gamde, Acting Head, Corporate Services Division, NSE, the Exchange is playing its part in building a financially savvy generation of future leaders.
“To develop an inclusive finance system, we believe we must first solve the problem of educating financial consumers to enable them efficiently utilise access to basic financial services We believe that as a nation, children and youths are an important component of building a secured future and we must train these future leaders on how to make sound financial decisions”.
