Haleemahummar:
Everyone agrees that money is significant in our lives. Money is a legal tender, and it makes the world go round. Financial Literacy is the ability to make, manage and multiply money. It is the machinery for every economy; with it, some thrive, and others don't. You can only tell the physical difference between the rich and the poor by the amount of money they have.

Most of us want to travel to oyibo land for greener pastures, but what are they doing right that we are not? For me, I think it's Financial Literacy. We are eager to make money, spend it all on expensive things to gain certain social status, and get broke, and the cycle continues until we die. We are just bad at managing our finances.

Whether we know it or not, from our political leaders to parents to individual youth, financial literacy knowledge is as necessary as the singular act of making money.

Haleemahummar:
Everyone agrees that money is significant in our lives. Money is a legal tender, and it makes the world go round. Financial Literacy is the ability to make, manage and multiply money. It is the machinery for every economy; with it, some thrive, and others don't. You can only tell the physical difference between the rich and the poor by the amount of money they have.

Most of us want to travel to oyibo land for greener pastures, but what are they doing right that we are not? For me, I think it's Financial Literacy. We are eager to make money, spend it all on expensive things to gain certain social status, and get broke, and the cycle continues until we die. We are just bad at managing our finances.

Whether we know it or not, from our political leaders to parents to individual youth, financial literacy knowledge is as necessary as the singular act of making money.

Joannebassey:
I recently heard that QNET has embarked on a financial literacy programme for young people in Nigeria called FINGREEN (I saw it on social media). However, I did not get the opportunity to participate because I was told the slot was for just 20 people. My understanding of the initiative, as explained by a friend who attended, was that they aimed to train about 6,000 young people in Nigeria on Financial Literacy.
Since this was a pilot, they trained 20 participants who were mandated to carry out individual peer-to-peer training in their communities. So far, about 600 young people in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, and Oyo states have benefited from this.

Imagine this goes viral, and they can achieve their aim, which means our youth and some of us here will get literate on making and keeping money and not falling victim to scams and fraud in Nigeria. Imagine all 6,000 people know how to save, work with a budget, use credit cards wisely, etc. Omo, our lives will be much better and more well-organized.

Joannebassey:
I recently heard that QNET has embarked on a financial literacy programme for young people in Nigeria called FINGREEN (I saw it on social media). However, I did not get the opportunity to participate because I was told the slot was for just 20 people. My understanding of the initiative, as explained by a friend who attended, was that they aimed to train about 6,000 young people in Nigeria on Financial Literacy.
Since this was a pilot, they trained 20 participants who were mandated to carry out individual peer-to-peer training in their communities. So far, about 600 young people in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, and Oyo states have benefited from this.

Imagine this goes viral, and they can achieve their aim, which means our youth and some of us here will get literate on making and keeping money and not falling victim to scams and fraud in Nigeria. Imagine all 6,000 people know how to save, work with a budget, use credit cards wisely etc. Omo, our lives will be much better and more well-organized.

Joannebassey:
I recently heard that QNET has embarked on a financial literacy programme for young people in Nigeria called FINGREEN (I saw it on social media). However, I did not get the opportunity to participate because I was told the slot was for just 20 people. My understanding of the initiative, as explained by a friend who attended, was that they aimed to train about 6,000 young people in Nigeria on Financial Literacy.
Since this was a pilot, they trained 20 participants who were mandated to carry out individual peer-to-peer training in their communities. So far, about 600 young people in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, and Oyo states have benefited from this.

Imagine this goes viral, and they can achieve their aim, which means our youth and some of us here will get literate on making and keeping money and not falling victim to scams and fraud in Nigeria. Imagine all 6,000 people know how to save, work with a budget, use credit cards wisely etc. Omo, our lives will be much better and more well-organized.

Haleemahummar:
LOL, when I heard about it, I thought it was one of those scamming activities people do in the name of QNET where they say come and be trained for a job, you go, and they tell you to pay.
This was a free event.

So, as usual, I went to their website http://www.qnet.net and found https://www.qnet.net/fingreen/.

I realised they used the same principle as their direct selling model to try and reach out to more youth in Nigeria. This time it's not on product sales but on educating people on financial literacy. Peer-to-peer training is an innovative way of ensuring that age gaps break the knowledge barriers between them. It is also a surefire way to have a ripple effect on the passage of knowledge.