Financial Literacy Program

Punjab School Education Board

THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO CATALYZING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE IN INDIA AND BUILDING A LASTING BRIDGE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND INDIA. In a country where extreme contrasts of wealth and poverty coexist in everyday life, we hear hopeful stories of India’s rise and rapid growth. Yet 800 million people – more than the entire population of Africa – live on less than two dollars per day in India. Amid the tragic devastation caused by the Gujarat earthquake in 2001, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee recognized the need for a philanthropy platform that would connect the world’s two largest democracies and provide a trusted bridge for meaningful participation in India’s democratic and economic growth for both Americans and Indians. The American India Foundation has since built on this vision and created countless opportunities for India’s poor to live successful, productive lives while creating impactful change at an unprecedented scale, changing the lives of more than 2.3 million of India’s less fortunate.

TEFES

(Technology Enabled Financial Education in School)

Financial literacy defines as “a combination of financial awareness, knowledge, skills, attitude and behaviors necessary to make sound financial decisions and ultimately achieve individual financial well-being.”

In recent years, financial literacy has increasingly risen as a key competency and area of focus in development practice. Keeping in view the critical need of financial literacy among students, AIF’s TEFES program aims to tap into this opportunity and build a standardized and scalable implementation model for financial education within government schools serving low-income families in association with Punjab ICT Education Society (Government of Punjab) in 200 schools across 10 districts of Punjab from 2014 to 2016.

Under Financial Literacy Program "FEW" Workshop was organized at school level. In which different groups of students arrange different stalls and sale their things to school students and teachers and community members came in workshop.

Along this students also prepare Financial Literacy model on different module with the help of teacher and under the guidance of DE Trainer.