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More than thousand Mexican children will be able to acquire financial education with the help of Lola, Elmo and Lucas , characters from Sesame Street, through the program: financial strengthening for families. This global initiative led by Sesame Workshop, a non-profit educational organization to which Plaza Sesame belongs, seeks to equip children and adults with prudent and healthy financial skills and behaviors. With the support of Foundation, educational materials and multimedia content were created that will increase knowledge about financial strategies in Mexican families, explained Brenda Campos, director of Sesame Workshop in Mexico. With these materials, it is intended that both children and adults will be able to define their goals, make plans, and understand that the choices they make every day can help them fulfill their dreams. “The need to improve the financial skills that make people start saving and planning for their future is clear. Making careful choices, planning and saving is essential for a healthy and positive education that will give lifelong results,” said the director of Sesame Workshop in Mexico.
Thus through activities that include games, songs and videos, they will make financial information accessible, understandable and a daily topic. Currently, 50 thousand America Mobile Number List educational kits from the initiative are being distributed among preschools in Mexico City, Puebla and Veracruz. Within reach Silvia Singer, general director of the Interactive Museum of Economics (MIDE), explained that investing in financial education in the earliest stages of children's development is a great opportunity to prepare them and their families for a better future. The idea of Dream, Save, Reach is that with children's, friendly and entertaining content, appropriate language is provided to facilitate dialogue by offering effective strategies to spend, save, even share and donate. García Gutiérrez, coordinator of Fundación México, explained that it is very important for children to develop solid foundations that guide them to make intelligent financial decisions.
The program facilitates the making of these decisions, as it helps to balance the positive and negative conditions of a situation and to decide the next steps more effectively,” stated García. The director of MIDE explained that although their average audience is young people between 15 and 25 years old, in recent years they have established strategies to serve children, for example with this type of initiatives. The program design The Dream, Save, Reach program was based on three elements: We can do it!: have a positive attitude that means confidence and aspirations How can we do it?: Know behaviors related to self-regulation and execution functions (conscious control of thoughts, feelings and actions) that help establish, plan and achieve objectives. What information do we need?: Have the knowledge and information necessary to achieve financial strengthening and achieve the proposed goals. Guides were also generated for parents and caregivers that help adults also understand financial education topics.
Thus through activities that include games, songs and videos, they will make financial information accessible, understandable and a daily topic. Currently, 50 thousand America Mobile Number List educational kits from the initiative are being distributed among preschools in Mexico City, Puebla and Veracruz. Within reach Silvia Singer, general director of the Interactive Museum of Economics (MIDE), explained that investing in financial education in the earliest stages of children's development is a great opportunity to prepare them and their families for a better future. The idea of Dream, Save, Reach is that with children's, friendly and entertaining content, appropriate language is provided to facilitate dialogue by offering effective strategies to spend, save, even share and donate. García Gutiérrez, coordinator of Fundación México, explained that it is very important for children to develop solid foundations that guide them to make intelligent financial decisions.
The program facilitates the making of these decisions, as it helps to balance the positive and negative conditions of a situation and to decide the next steps more effectively,” stated García. The director of MIDE explained that although their average audience is young people between 15 and 25 years old, in recent years they have established strategies to serve children, for example with this type of initiatives. The program design The Dream, Save, Reach program was based on three elements: We can do it!: have a positive attitude that means confidence and aspirations How can we do it?: Know behaviors related to self-regulation and execution functions (conscious control of thoughts, feelings and actions) that help establish, plan and achieve objectives. What information do we need?: Have the knowledge and information necessary to achieve financial strengthening and achieve the proposed goals. Guides were also generated for parents and caregivers that help adults also understand financial education topics.