Free Finan-Entrepren. Educ.to 1000 Venez. Students

Counting on future funds and taking advantage of a long school holidays period we have proceeded to print updated Financial education booklets to be used for future interventions at schools, once new donations are received.

The first cohort of students that have been participating in our programs have already ended their training and are nowdays initiating their careers at universities. Most of them have selected Electronics and IT careers and now count with a more solid basis to complete their studies, considering the weaknesses of our country education system for high school and the lack of a sound programming for high school to support their expectations of being accepted at recognized public universities. Most of them fail at presenting their admission exams.

For one year we have expected our projects to receive funds for completion. Unfortunately reports show just a few donations have been received by Global Giving. Without these there is no probability to continue with this training, which costs have increased dramatically as a result of a deflation/hyperinflation economy as well as a confrontation environment being faced due to the next Assembly elections which have somehow paralyzed universities. We hope to conclude this path we have initiated but will not be able to continue without funds needed to accomplish it.

In order to pursue on the program's objective of providing financial and entrepreneur education to young people, we have invested the US$ 70 received this year in producing financial education materials to serve 10 low income students.  These materials cover personal economic and basic financial education being used as education tools for both volunteers and students along a process that have taken two months. These guides provide interests, skills and abilities identification, personal project mapping, self-esteem improvement, career orientation, and how to align our strengths with career selection, as it provides guidance on how to write a CV, manage a job interview and understand the basics for preparing a personal and family budgets, using banking tools, the value of credit, credit and debit cards, financial and investment tools and planning among other concepts.