Bangkok, 9 January 2020 – SEC is set to jointly launch the National Children’s Day 2020 event at the Rajvithi Home for Girls, which is the first time that the SEC will have launched a social activity in the form of CSR in process, providing knowledge on savings for kids of elementary level, with the objective to cultivate saving and financial management skills to the youths. The video of the story “Parent Taught Me How to Spend” will also be introduced at the event.
SEC is in the process of preparing to open up a
booth at the National Children’s Day 2020 event at the Rajvithi Home for Girls on
Saturday, 11 January 2020, facilitated by Ministry of Social Development and
Human Security (MSDHS). The theme of the event is “Super Thai Kids Care About
Saving”, under which the SEC is one of the attendants to open booths therein,
where over 1,000 kids between 6-12 years are expected to attend the event.
SEC
Secretary-General Ruenvadee
Suwanmongkol said “One
of the strategies of the SEC is to raise awareness regarding the significance
of long-term savings, and to promote the capital market as an important tool in
financial planning. SEC has put in continuous efforts in providing knowledge
regarding finance and investment to the investing public, ranging from the
working age to the retirement age. Long-term savings must be instilled since a
young age, so that they would become responsible in their financial management,
and that they would have a habit of saving. By attending the National
Children’s Day 2020 event, SEC will hold informative activities for kids for
the first time. They are in the age of learning and memorizing, which is an
excellent period to understand that saving is a basic skill in life.”
SEC
booth will consist of a variety of activities that would teach kids how to
spend and save their money, via the game “A Need or A Want?”, which teaches
kids and the youth to be able to determine between what are necessities and
what are considered luxurious goods. A video of the story “Parents Taught Me
How to Spend”, recently produced by SEC, will also be introduced in the event.
It follows the story of “Nong Ton Khaw”, the protagonist, who learns about
spending and saving, with easily understandable examples for kids to understand
about how to spend their money on necessities, as well as instilling the habit
of saving up money. Parents can also use the video as a mean to teach their
kids about saving up money as well. Furthermore, the booth also provides a
questionnaire game and a coloring corner with Captain SEC and Nong Ton Khaw,
which promotes creative and artistic skills for children.
Kids
and youths who attend SEC booth will get an income and expense book “30 Days, I
Can Do It”, for kids to try their hands at recording their incomes and expenses
as a starting point towards saving up for their financial goals.
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