Budgeting and Economy ;)
Last Saturday we had another exciting activity in the project. Knowing that our youth don’t really have experience handling money on their own, we find it necessary to provoke them to think about planning their economy. Therefore, this Saturday we made a workshop on how to make a personal budget and then we made them try it out in a small simulation game where we had created a small town with a bank, a store, a clinic, a school and a transportation office. The youth got a case on beforehand, which indicated how much they earned, and what different kinds of expenses that they were going to have. They then had to make a budget with the data from their case, and later they had to try out their budget making purchases in the store, going to the clinic, paying for their kids education in the school, paying transportation and paying rent, water and electricity bills in the bank. The youth had a really good time, and at the same time they got to understand the importance of planning their expenses and making a budget. Sometimes a young inexperienced individual might be overwhelmed and excited about having their own money between their fingers, and they are tempted to go out and buy expensive phones before they think about rent, electricity and food. We are trying to prepare them for that temptation and to get them an experience of planning their economy so they don’t have to learn it the hard way once they live outside the orphanage and suddenly cant pay rent, or doesn’t have money to pay their kids school.
- We want to build leaders to change society -
- We want to build leaders to change society -