2019 Syrian Arab Republic Global Money Week
LEADING ORGANISATIONS:
- Mobaderoon
PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS:
- Al Ehsan ALkhairieh, Al Saidieh Nafisa School, Albaraka Bank, Alber Organisation, Alshiekh Saleh School, Bemo Bank, Fada Association, Jan Antide Church, JCI, Ladies of Love Organisation, Nour Foundation, The Cultural Centre in Homs
NUMBER OF CHILDREN REACHED DIRECTLY:
- 1 420
NUMBER OF PEOPLE REACHED INDIRECTLY:
- 5 500
Mobaderoon
Mobaderoon not only organised numerous activities themselves during GMW2019, but also motivated many other organisations to participate as well. Activities arranged included visits to banks, where teenagers were able to learn about the life cycle of money and the operations conducted by banks. The Jan Antide Church guided children in saving money for the month prior to the Week, organised a bake sale, and taught the children on the importance of saving. Furthermore, Aflatoun Day 2019 was celebrated, with a Skype call to the Aflatoun Club in the Philippines, with whom the children discussed saving and the money cycle.
2018 Syrian Arab Republic Global Money Week
LEADING ORGANISATIONS:
- Mobaderoon
PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS:
- Al- Raha Senior Citizen Center, Barak Bank Syria, coloured Space, Fada Association, Hayat Foundation, Homs Kindergarten, Peace Makers, Phoenix School and Kindergarten, Trix Cafe
NUMBER OF CHILDREN REACHED DIRECTLY:
- 500
NUMBER OF PEOPLE REACHED INDIRECTLY:
- 39 000
Mobaderoon
To celebrate Global Money Week 2018, Mobaderoon conducted several activities and supported many of its partners to conduct their own. During the Week, Mobaderoon arranged field visits to banks in Damascus, Aleppo, Hama and Lattakia. The bank, Al Barak Bank, was friendly and provided great information to the young people. Many other activities were held, new outreach methods were created and teenagers wrote messages about the importance of saving. They delivered these messages to people in Trix cafe in rural Damascus. Additionally, they put messages on tables and receipts to make sure people read them. In total, more than 200 people were reached.
2017 Syrian Arab Republic Global Money Week
LEADING ORGANISATION:
PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS:
- Fada Association
- Hayat Association
- Nour Foundation
- SEBC
- Hams Centre
- House of Love
- Peace Makers
- Pioneers Centre
- The Third Scout Regiment
- Let’s Read Center
- Ain Allouzeih School
- Biet Aliyan School
- Peace Debate team
- Ashrafiet Sahnaya cultural center
- Baraaem Kindergarten
- Alrajaa Society
NUMBER OF CHILDREN REACHED DIRECTLY:
- 2 007
NUMBER OF CHILDREN REACHED INDIRECTLY:
- 17 920
Throughout the Global Money Week 2017, Mobaderoon, along with its partners, reached 2207 children and youth through financial education and financial education games and competitions. During the GMW 2017, financial literacy awareness sessions were offered for children, youth and adults, including sessions about banking, saving, currencies and banks policies in Syria. Throughout the Week, young people were able to engage themselves in high level activities held by large organisations in Tartous, Syria, to sell their handmade work, talk about the importance of saving and to introduce GMW to the people. Others managed to create their own exhibition in Hama, selling handcrafts, sharing their talents with people and sharing their experience in the field of saving and its importance, especially in a situation like the one in Syria. Furthermore, this year, Aflateen clubs in Syria had the opportunity to participate in many competitions to draw, write, capture and design pictures and stories highlighting the importance of saving and the money cycle in order to create awareness as much as possible of other people. Through these competitions, children and youth won presents and certificates. A Global Money Week 2017 report is also being created to be shared with local and national NGOs, financial institutes and educational centers. As GMW 2017 was a great success in Syria, preparations for GMW 2018 have already begun.
2015 Syrian Arab Republic Global Money Week
LEADING ORGANISATION:
PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS:
- Fada Tartous (NGO Tartous), Small grants department in UNRWA (NGO - LATTAKIA), NOUR organisation (NGO Rural Damascus), Bank Bimo (Bank Aleppo), Damascus University of commerce and economics (Damascus), Mozaiic (Latakie), Aflatoun
DATE OF THE EVENT:
- 9th - 17th of March
TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH ENGAGED:
- 6 503
TOTAL INDIRECT REACHED:
- 16 500
For the opening of GMW in Syria, a lecture took place in Sahnaya, a city in rural Damascus. A group of Aflateen participants organised a small lecture for entrepreneurs and teenagers. Afterwards the teenagers posed questions to the entrepreneurs - including questions about savings and budgeting - and discussed the way in which the lecture inspired them. This was one of the three lectures organised in Damascus and rural Damascus, which had 60 attendees overall. The same Aflateen group, made a visit with their classmates to entrepreneurs’ places of work, where they explored the everyday responsibilities for each job, and met employees and administrators who gave insights about their businesses. Also in Sahnaya, two teenagers and their teachers toured schools and presented to other students about the concepts of saving and what it means to be active and productive in society.
The city of Tartous celebrated GMW colourfully, where they held a festival from 12-16 of March in “The Phoenix” Kindergarten school. As part of the celebration 127 children and youth from Aflatot, Aflatoun and Aflateen clubs sold recycled materials and hosted engaging activities around financial awareness. These activities included theater kiosks with information about savings, lectures, a corner for drawings, and many others. The event reached over 300 teachers, parents and youth from the local community. Participants in Al-kafroun created an innovative initiative by selling T-shirts with writing about savings in Arabic to the local community. Earlier in the Week 45 young children involved in Aflatot took to the stage to make a presentation about savings for their entire school.
The city of Lattakia was involved in the Week’s celebrations as well, where two creative bazar sales were held; the first, a cake sale held on 17 of March, was called “Made in Aflateen”, and the second, held on 19th of March, was an initiative to turn empty bottles and into plants boxes and sell these boxes to explain how much one can save by recycling instead of buying.
Youth from Lattakie were keen to join their Damascene friends in the GMW activities and during the week they made three visits to banks. On 17, 19 and 20 March bank managers provided presentations to more than 200 teenagers on the principles of financial saving and basic understanding of the economy. As a result of these visits the teenagers began a campaign for savings, where they decided to save the money that they would typically use on public transportation by travelling by bike instead. The group decided that this money would be donated to the “Al – Basha’er” organisation for use in their programme for funding students.
In addition, teenagers in Hama organised a number of community visits from local entrepreneurs, while young people in Aleppo carried out an interactive lecture where they explained the benefits and basics of savings to other teenagers and children, who each took home a savings box afterwards. Syrian teenagers in Gaziantep, Turkey, attended a lecture about the importance of financial education and how this linked with the current economic difficulties in Syria. As part of the lecture, the professor discussed the incorporation of savings tools into the education system and how teacher training and development can support financial literacy.
“I felt proud of the children of my country as they were thinking with awareness for financial saving, as they were recycling materials and benefiting from its sales to raise money that would release the large burden from their parents’ shoulders. Participating in the Global Money Week was an enriching experience for the second year in a row. We pray that we remain able to participate every year.” Georges Marrah, Male 23 years old, Aflatoun supervisor from Rural Damascus, Syria
“I was motivated to participate in the GMW to be part of raising awareness about financial savings and its importance especially in our current circumstances of the Syrian crisis and war. It became crucial that we, as the popular Syrian motto said: Hide your white penny for a dark day.” Mouzahar, Male 17 years old, Youth participant of the GMW activities, from Damascus, Syria
“We designed and created note books and agenda from recycled used papers and textiles that were laying in our houses without use, with a bit of decorations we were able to come up with beautiful work and sell them and use the income of our sales for our upcoming initiative. We found that we can put any remains of an item to use instead of throwing it.”Ail, 17 years old male, youth participant in GMW from Tartous, Syria
2014 Syrian Arab Republic Global Money Week
PARTICIPANT:
- Aflatoun
15000 online voters declared a young Syrian the Aflateen Digital champion through the ‘Aflateen Champion 2014 Competition,’ which was launched by Aflatoun in lead up to Global Money Week and International Aflatoun Day. Young people were invited to share their stories on social and financial projects; more than 33 inspiring stories were collected from 17 countries. The Syrian winner, Emmanuel Allabed, gave enthusiastic feedback during Global Money Week on his learning experience in the Aflatoun programme. He specifically highlighted how he learnt to manage his time better and fully engage in projects. The more he learnt about the importance of financial education, the more he found himself dedicating more time to his projects.
