Access Bank Plc, said it is targeting a total of four million school children to train on financial literacy across the country.
This was disclosed by the North Central/South East regional sales director of Access Bank, Dele Balogun, during a sensitization campaign at Hallmark Academy in Lafia.
He said the global money week was an initiative of his organisation targeted at children finance in the world.
He said the idea is to give these children the opportunity for them to understand what they can do and how its value can translate into social development.
He said Access Bank spends so much on the initiative and is willing to pass same knowledge to students across the country.
According to him, “It is the desire of the organisation that our society can be enhanced in terms of value.”
He disclosed that the success story of the program so far, has been that some students have utilised the value passed to them.
“The importance of it is that, we want to catch them young, we want them to become great so that tomorrow they can also replace us in other place.
“Our intention is to reduce the level of financial exclusion by including so many and we can better do that when children are still young, so that the message that were passed to them can also be passed to their parents,” he said.
On her part, Mrs Lilian Phillips, the regional manager of Access Bank in Nasarawa State, said the global financial week was also aimed at teaching the children how to save money at a tender age.
She said the bank was out to make a little difference in the lives of the children and the society at large.
“Many people get old, they just know how to leave from hand to mouth, collect salary and spend. We want to start teaching the children from a young age how to manage money so that one can be an asset to the society,” she said.
