GE MONEY has launched the first financial education programme in Singapore for troubled teenage girls between 14 and 16 years.
The lender is partnering Children-at-Risk Empowerment Association (Care) Singapore - a non-profit, voluntary welfare organisation - to address the learning needs of this group.
With about 90 per cent of Care's students coming from the Normal (Technical) Stream, the scheme will reach out to girls from Secondary 2 to 4 in its network of eight neighbourhood schools.
The scheme has been designed to address the needs of 'girls-at-risk', who face academic, financial and social adjustment issues, or juvenile delinquency.
Under the programme, each student will be trained to have a better understanding of how to best use and manage money.
By participating in games and various learning activities, they will be exposed to understanding the differences between needs and wants and how to save for financial goals.
