Over 100 learners from rural schools in Estcourt, Bulwer, Mandeni and Port Shepstone got to grips with money matters during Global Money Week with the help of Ithala SOC Limited volunteers and employees.
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Starsaver is a national savings campaign, adopted as an annual programme championed by the South African Banking Association and the broader financial sector, with the aim of teaching children to save in order to foster a culture of savings.
The programme highlights the important role that volunteer bankers and financial sector professionals can play in educating our nation’s youth to become lifelong savers.
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South Africa is one of 137 countries that take part in the Global Money Week programme aimed at encouraging learners to be savvy about money, saving, becoming gainfully employed, improving livelihoods, wealth and becoming independent and responsible income generating citizens.
Participating schools were Ngonyama High School in Bulwer; Celukuphiwe Combined School in Estcourt; Gqumeni Primary School in Mandeni and S’dumile Primary School Port Shepstone.
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