Achievements in 2024
Ensuring alignment to Malaysia’s National Strategy for Financial Literacy and MOE’s national curriculum, we aim to equip students with the financial knowledge needed to transition to adulthood. Besides workshops focusing on practical skills, we also provide opportunities for students to apply learning in real-life situations.
Ensuring alignment to Malaysia’s National Strategy for Financial Literacy and MOE’s national curriculum, we aim to equip students with the financial knowledge needed to transition to adulthood. Besides workshops focusing on practical skills, we also provide opportunities for students to apply learning in real-life situations.
90+ schools engaged
30+ teachers trained
60+ social enterprises set up
90% of students surveyed have an increased understanding of financial literacy concepts
IMPACT STORIES
GOOD SENS BEST SOCIAL ENTERPRISE WINNERS 2024
The Good SENS programme successfully engaged 380 driven primary school students, aged 10 to 12, from 37 schools across Malaysia. With the support of over 60 mentors from the financial industry, these students gained invaluable hands-on experience in financial literacy by creating and running their own social enterprises.
EMPOWERING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH FINANCIAL LITERACY
Find out how students from SK Parit Raja, Johor, went up against teams from Egypt, England, and Scotland, many of whom were older or whose first language was English, and emerged triumphant with the title of ‘Best Product Award’ at the 2023 International Dragons’ Den.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
FINCO Good SENS
Good SENS (Social Enterprise Network for Schools) is FINCO’s flagship financial literacy programme developed to address low financial literacy skills amongst primary school students. Supported by teachers and financial industry volunteers, students participating in this programme have the chance to learn more about financial concepts such as spending, saving and budgeting, and the opportunity to have fun while learning valuable skills such as leadership, decision making and teamwork as they run their own social enterprise!
FINCO is proud of the global recognition that Good SENS has received.
FINCO Ringgit Rules workshops
Informed by research and behavioral insights, FINCO works with school counsellors to deliver Financial Literacy workshops which encourage students to explore the values and mindsets they hold towards personal finance management and to develop good financial habits as they transition to adulthood.
FINCO Ringgit Rules Junior Resources
This resource pack contains several bite-sized resources that teachers, Financial Industry volunteers and others can easily adopt and adapt to teach students basic financial literacy concepts as they see fit. It is designed to align to MOE learning standards and is complete with facilitation notes and teaching materials.
Train-the-Trainer Programme: Personal Financial Management for Teachers
The Train-the-Trainer Programme, which is led by the Financial Education Network (FEN), managed by FINCO, and supported by the Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE), aims to equip teachers with financial literacy to enhance their financial well-being and confidently deliver financial education in schools.
To achieve this, the programme builds the capacity of MOE trainers by enhancing their knowledge of personal financial management, enabling them to train pre-service, in-service, primary, and secondary school teachers nationwide.
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