Bank helps seven to be better trainers in financial literacy

SEVEN trainers from the Anis Foundation in Lae graduated as financial literacy trainers last Friday after completing a training on trainers’ course by Bank of PNG (BPNG).
The training was held for one week and was conducted through the BPNG’s Microfinance Expansion Project (MEP) which was funded by the Asian Development Bank.
MEP manager Jacob Gop presented certificates to the trainers and challenged them to do their best while conducting financial literacy trainings.
“The lives of many people can change if you train them well on how to manage their money wisely,” hge said.
“I am pleased that such non-governmental organ sations like Anis Foundation exist as agents of change,”
he said.
Gop urged micro banks in Lae to identify their customers to organisations like Anis
Foundation so they can be trained in financial literacy.
“Partnering with faith-based organisations has proven to be successful in implementing projects like this,” he said. “I believe Anis Foundation will now be successful in delivering the trainings,”
he said
Anis Foundation president Sil Poi thanked BPNG for facilitating the programme and acknowledged that the training would assist Anis Foundation’s objective to help disadvantaged people.
“We are now ready to conduct financial literacy training to people in Morobe province,” he said. “We will carry out BPNG’s Microfinance Expansion Project by training about 7000 people in six months.”
He said Anis Foundation has a programme to help disadvantaged mothers and widows in settlements and that training would be a bonus for the foundation.
Anis Foundation is a Lae-based NGO which was set up by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church to help poor people.