G2K pushing financial literacy course in high schools | Lead Stories

As schools acquired the inexperienced gentle to reopen for face-to-face studying on Monday, Romario Stewart, coverage chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party’s Generation 2000 (G2K) younger skilled associates’ group, is advocating for the inclusion of financial literacy in secondary curricula.
Stewart, who has a ardour for cash administration as a result of it influenced his foray into the world of funding banking, informed The Gleaner on Wednesday that financial literacy needs to be a compulsory course of examine for younger individuals.
He remembers his curiosity being piqued whereas studying the 1997 e book Rich Dad Poor Dad, written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter, which was gifted to him by his stepfather.
The tome taught him “that the one means in which you’ll be able to create wealth is thru investing and growing passive earnings by way of investing, whether or not or not it’s by way of actual property, a enterprise, or paper property reminiscent of shares”, he stated.
That data induced him to get entangled in the inventory market.

Stewart later gained a inventory buying and selling competitors at The University of the West Indies, which led to a finance internship at Sagicor Investments.
After that apprenticeship at Sagicor, Stewart realised that he needed to be an funding banker.
Currently, Stewart is an assistant supervisor in VM Wealth’s Capital Markets unit.
“Financial literacy helped me to realize upward social mobility. As a younger man who grew up in Seaview Gardens, by way of training and financial literacy, [I] was in a position to take myself out of that neighborhood,” he remarked.
Crediting financial literacy as a instrument to alleviate poverty and cut back social inequality, Stewart stated that G2K is gearing as much as have the course launched in dozens of schools as a topic by March 2022.
Twitter Spaces
The first formal introduction of the challenge will happen by way of discussions hosted on the social media website Twitter through the function Twitter Spaces. That discussion board will convey collectively stakeholders to debate the worth of the paradigm shift for the following era.
Stewart informed The Gleaner that G2K hopes to interact younger professionals, finance influencers, the America Bankers Association, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, the Jamaica Stock Exchange, and different people or teams to offer path to the training ministry in order to make the dream a actuality.
The challenge will initially goal 40 high schools throughout the island.
“We dwell in a society the place most Jamaicans aren’t uncovered to this type of data, and this lack of information on how one can create wealth and preserve good funds is without doubt one of the key contributors to the continuation of the cycle of poverty,” stated Stewart.
He additional said that G2K anticipates that the initiative may have a knock-on impact on the financial system in the long run.
The course content material is predicted to be delivered on-line, which will even enhance digital literacy. They additionally suggest that assessments can be performed by way of gamification, which won’t solely have interaction and curiosity college students but in addition consider their essential considering expertise.
Stewart asserts that G2K believes the onus is on the organisation to play a job in guaranteeing that “the longer term era is effectively geared up with the talents vital to remodel Jamaica into the place of option to dwell, work, increase households, and do enterprise”.
“Once a topic like that is packaged correctly and delivered innovatively, I feel it is going to be effectively acquired by college students, mother and father, and academics in training system,” stated Stewart.
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