{"id":75929,"date":"2019-03-22T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=75929"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:32:37","slug":"bankers-gear-up-for-global-money-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/22\/bankers-gear-up-for-global-money-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankers gear up for Global Money Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Taonga Sabola: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75930\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/violet-santhe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/violet-santhe-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/violet-santhe-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/violet-santhe.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SANTHE\u2014Children must learn how to earn money<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bankers Association of Malawi (Bam) has said preparations for this year\u2019s Global Money Week (GMW) are at an advanced stage.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi will from March 25 to 30 join the rest of the world in commemorating GMW under the theme Learn, Earn and Save.<\/p>\n<p>GMW, a Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) initiative, is an annual financial awareness campaign built to inspire children and young people to learn about money matters, livelihoods and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>Bam Chief Executive Officer, Violette Santhe, said on Wednesday that today\u2019s children and youth should become empowered citizens, capable of understanding the importance of saving.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe want young people to learn to manage their money wisely. By empowering children and youth, we can help them transfer their knowledge to their families and to entire communities,\u201d<\/em> Santhe said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She said during the week the bankers will visit two primary and two secondary schools in Blantyre to enlighten students on money related issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe have teamed up with our member-banks for the initiative which will, among other things, include a lecture and quiz competition. We hope this will go a long way in building better citizens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe earlier children learn about money, savings and investment, the better they manage their personal finances throughout their lives. These skills help children and youth to understand the difference between earning, saving and spending, making them better money managers, who are able to budget and have healthier money habits,\u201d<\/em> Santhe said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Taonga Sabola: Bankers Association of Malawi (Bam) has said preparations for this year\u2019s Global Money Week (GMW) are at an advanced stage. Malawi will from March 25 to 30 join the rest of the world in commemorating GMW under the theme Learn, Earn and Save. GMW, a Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) initiative, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75931,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75929\/revisions\/75931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}