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Prudence
Foundation Executive Director Marc Fancy presented Cha-Ching at the first BSP
Financial Education Expo
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British life insurer Pru Life UK’s community investment arm, Prudence Foundation, was featured in the recent Financial Education Stakeholders Expo 2018 of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for its innovative financial literacy advocacy program, Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids.
The Expo, which gathered advocates of financial education from the public and private sectors, aims to provide a platform for the sharing of best practices and enhancement financial literacy among Filipinos, ultimately contributing to nation building. Topics discussed during the two-day event, held from November 27 to 28, included personal finance management, financial education through performing arts and board games, and financial education as corporate social responsibility.
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Speakers of the plenary session on Innovations in Financial
Education
Launched in Hong Kong in 2011 by Prudential Corporation Asia, the regional headquarters of Pru Life UK, Cha-Ching is the first multi-country, multi-touchpoint educational program that aims to help parents in Asia teach children basic money management skills of Earn, Save, Spend, and Donate to children aged seven to 12. The program utilizes a variety of tools and platforms to maximize its reach, including a series of three-minute animated music videos, a website with games and applications, online resources and at-home activities, as well as a school curriculum to help build children’s understanding of the key money management concepts.
Marc Fancy, Executive Director of Prudence Foundation said, “From the outset of our Cha-Ching journey, the challenge was how to educate and reach over a million children. Clearly this could never be achieved by ourselves, so innovation and creativity played a key role in our strategy early on. Creating a multi-platform approach enables us to engage children in multiple ways, with the cartoon episodes and curriculum as the foundation of the program.”
The Philippines became the first country to integrate Cha-Ching in the grade school curriculum following the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with the Department of Education (DepEd) in April 2012 for the integration of the Cha-Ching in the grade 2 curriculum through DepEd’s Adopt-A-School program.
Pru Life UK further fortified its commitment to financial literacy in 2017 through the collaboration of Prudence Foundation with Junior Achievement (JA) Philippines and JA Asia Pacific. From just two pioneer schools in 2012, the program now has 926 Cha-Ching partner schools, with more than 4,800 teachers trained, who have taught the money-smart values to more than 240,500 students.
About Cha-ChingTM Money Smart Kids
Cha-Ching is an initiative of the Prudence Foundation, the charitable platform of Prudential Corporation Asia. Produced in co-operation with the Cartoon Network, the leading children’s channel in Asia Pacific, and with the backing of Dr. Alice Wilder, an expert in educational and child psychology, ¬Cha-Ching takes an engaging and age-appropriate musical narrative approach to teach children about four key fundamental money management concepts – Earn, Save, Spend and Donate.
It rolled out in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines in 2011, and then in Cambodia in 2015, Taiwan and UK in 2016. In 2017, the programme arrived in the US. Cha-Ching is currently available in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer and Burmese.
Cha-Ching is a series of three-minute animated television music videos for children aged 7 to 12 that were produced by and aired on Turner’s Cartoon Network. Other elements of the programme include a website (www.cha-ching.com) with games and applications featuring real-life money management scenarios, online resources and activity plans for kids, parents and teachers. The Cha-Ching School Contact Programme was implemented across Asia since 2012 and has reached more than 400,000 children directly. A new Cha-Ching curriculum with structured lessons plan for teachers was launched in schools in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia in 2016, and reached more than 100,000 students in 2017. The Curriculum is expanding to Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia in 2018.
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