The training was aimed at inculcating the culture of saving and financial education in the students at their formative stage.
The Director of the Institution, Prof. Binta Tijjani, said at the event on Wednesday in Kano, that the training was part of activities to celebrate this year’s Global Money Week (GMW).
According to her, the GMW with the theme “Money Matters Matter” is a worldwide celebration that engages children in learning how money works.
She added that the programme sponsored by the Jaiz Bank, focused on inculcating savings culture, creating livelihoods employment and entrepreneurship among the children.
The Director said that, “such forum provide a platform for empowering the next generation to be confident and responsible economic citizens’’.
“The GMW is about coming together of different stakeholders, parents, teachers, Youth organisations, financial institutions and the community to take action to reshape our thinking about Finance.
“And also to give young people the tools that they need to shape their own future”.
According to her, the future of the country’s economic growth and development requires the children and the youth to have adequate and appreciate financial education earlier in life.
She said that, “such can help them to become more informed economic citizens, active participants not onlookers.
“This is important because studies have shown that Northern part of the country has the highest of financial exclusion implication’’.
Tijjani said that, Kano, Jigawa and Kebbi States had the highest number of financially excluded people, which made the people prone to poverty.
“Another very important aspect of the GMW is teaching the habit of savings to the children, because putting aside small sums of money creates the habit of resource management and reduce wastages and mismanagement,’’ she said.
