About 15,000 students in primary and secondary schools across the country benefited from the voluntary teaching programme organised by Sterling Bank Plc in honouring of the 2016 Financial Literacy Week which was held last week.
According to the training, it is part of the ‘One Education’ initiative of Sterling Bank in order to further combine the strategic focus of the bank on education and its commitment to youth empowerment and development in line with the Financial Literacy Policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
This Financial Literacy Week is usually observed annually under the Global Money Week and it is recognized nationwide as part of efforts to establish and maintain healthy financial habits among kids and teenagers which Sterling Bank also identifies with.
However, the CBN assigned Gateway Secondary School, Abeokuta, Ogun State, to the bank, Sterling Bank, It also, took the initiative to include additional schools from states such as Ekiti, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Plateau, Bornu, Gombe, and Bauchi. Others schools in Kwara, Lagos, Edo, Delta, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, which were equally adopted by the bank to enable it cover more areas. Copies of the revised edition of its two books on financial literacy: ‘My Little Money Book’ and ‘Funds,’ and gift items, such as school bags and writing materials, were distributed free to students.
Shina Atilola,The group head, Strategy & Communications of the bank also, who represented the managing director and chief executive of Sterling bank, Mr Yemi Adeola, in Abeokuta, explained that the bank took the decision to expand the coverage beyond the scope assigned to it by the CBN in order to reach out to more students and teach them how to learn the culture of financial management at a young age. This, according to him, would enable them to understand the basic elements of financial management, adding that “the Sterling volunteers’ team had used the opportunity of this year’s programme to impart useful knowledge, discipline and patriotism to the younger generation.”
According to him, he noted that Sterling Bank had remained consistent in providing adequate support for child education by providing materials that could be of help to them in their educational pursuits. The Bank also provided an e-library for the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti to improve the nations’s educational sector under our ‘One Education!’ initative.
Mr. Atilola also added that “Our objective is to transform education; to invest in education and enable investment ion the sector.
