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The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE orExchange) in collaboration with Access Bank Plc will commemorate the 2017Global Money Week themed: ‘Learn. Save. Earn’ with a series of educationalprograms to raise awareness and improve the capabilities of young people tomake sound decisions when it comes to financial matters.
The knowledge sharing sessions will hold from March27 to March 31, 2017 across all NSE’s offices in Nigeria. It will see itsemployees mentoring young people on how money works, saving, investing,creating livelihood, gaining employment and entrepreneurship.
Other activities for the week will include a ClosingGong ceremony at the Exchange, excursions to the trading floor, interactivesession with executive management of the Exchange.
Global Money Week, a global movement to raiseawareness of the importance of financial education and financial inclusion forchildren and youth is led by Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), anon-profit organisation based in Amsterdam.
According to Pai Gamde, Acting Head, CorporateServices Division, NSE, the Exchange is playing its part in building afinancially savvy generation of future leaders.
“To develop an inclusive finance system, we believewe must first solve the problem of educating financial consumers to enable themefficiently utilise access to basic financial services We believe that as anation, children and youths are an important component of building a securedfuture and we must train these future leaders on how to make sound financialdecisions”.
On his part, Head of Corporate Communications, NSE,Olumide Orojimi said, “The Global Money Week initiative is fully consistentwith our vision to promote a market place where investors are well educated tomake sound investment decisions. We continue to be proud of this programme asit allows our employees and partners to make available their expertise toprepare young people for a secured financial the future. For the past twoyears, the Exchange has been able to directly reach over 3,033 students andpupils from over 54 secondary and primary schools with an indirect effect onabout 10,000 young people across its operating environment”
