Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN) as part of events to celebrate the 2019 World Savings Day has partnered with Omilola Oshikoya International to set up the Richerkids Club in Redeemers International School, Lagos.
Richerkids Club is an online wealth club for kids and teens aged 6 -15 with the objective of educating and inspiring the next generation to live the richer life using methodology which focuses on 5 areas: what true wealth is, how to create wealth, how to manage wealth, how to grow wealth and how to use wealth.
World Savings Day, a day marked every October 3lst, is an event created to increase pupils’ awareness of the importance of savings both for modern economies and for individual’s sake. It focuses on the relevance of savings in the global economy and how every deposit contributes to its development.
Oduolayinka Osunloye, director of Marketing and innovation, Junior Achievement Nigeria, speaking on the significance of the day, said World Savings Day is a financial literacy initiative aimed at celebrating the benefits of being thrifty.
Osunloye says ‘Saving’ aligns with JAN core pillars, especially the “financial literacy’ pillar. Adding that a day like this allows Junior Achievement Nigeria to further raise public awareness and reiterate the strategic importance of saving particularly for young minds and how cultivating the right saving habit affects their financial well-being.
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In line with our commitment to delivering on our vision, we will be kicking off the #Savewithjan school tour by visiting schools around Lagos with some of our partners and contributors such as Omilola Oshikoya, members of the Lagos chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority incorporated amongst others who will be speaking to over 500 secondary school students about the importance of Financial Literacy and responsibility as well as launch the Richerkids Club. ‘
It is an opportunity for JAN as an organisation to further deliver on our Financial Literacy Pillar. Through our #Savewithjan initiative, we are partnering with various organisations and individuals to inform primary school students and youths about financial responsibility, the idea of saving their money in a bank and other financial tools to ensure they become leaders of their own Lives’.
According to her, “JAN, over the last 20 years, has implemented economic education programmes hat develop attitudes and skills necessary for personal success and social responsibility and delivers practical, experiential handson programmes under the three pillars of financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship”.
She, however, reiterated that JAN’S commitment to teaching financial literacy and other economic education programmes to young people as the organisation continue in a race to reaching 1,000,000 young people by the end of 2019.
Omilola Oshikoya, Founder of Omilola Oshikoya International, a wealth and financial advisory, training and coaching company while speaking on the partnership said “One of our long term goals for the richer kids clubs was to impact children in public schools with our curriculum.
Fortunately, the partnership with Junior Achievement Nigeria has enabled us to achieve this in the short term due to the extensive and highly impressive work they have done with public schools over the years.
