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Aflatoun International Launches Aflayouth, an Empirical Curriculum Developed to Support Sustainable Livelihood, Tailored for Marginalised Youth
The curriculum caters to the age group of 16 - 24+ years and enables the youth to build applied social and financial skillsets, including employability and entrepreneurial skills, to better equip them for the job market or to start their own businesses.
Aflatoun International Launches Aflayouth, an Empirical Curriculum Developed to Support Sustainable Livelihood, Tailored for Marginalised Youth
The curriculum caters to the age group of 16 - 24+ years and enables the youth to build applied social and financial skillsets, including employability and entrepreneurial skills, to better equip them for the job market or to start their own businesses.
Published 10-17-19
Submitted by Aflatoun International
Below: AflaYouth Curricula BooksAflatoun International will launch its latest curriculum ‘AflaYouth’ during its biennial Global Social and Financial Skills Conference, from 30 Oct -1 Nov, 2019.
The AflaYouth programme, comprising three tracks Social and Financial Education, Employability Skills and Entrepreneurship Skills, is suited to be easily adaptable in all contexts. It will enable the youth, particularly vulnerable young women and men (from agricultural communities, other low-income groups, school drop-outs, etc.) to gain access to training, on- and offline courses, and mentoring during their transitions into internships, the formal labour market and/or entrepreneurship.
AflaYouth would also provide support to local organisations to engage with young people, the private sector and the value chains across the world.
Aflatoun CEO, Roeland Monasch, says, “Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and local entrepreneurs would, especially, stand to benefit from the rich talent pool that AflaYouth can help build. In collaboration with our partners globally, we are adopting an innovative approach, whereby participants will be inspired, informed, engaged, coached and assisted to start a private enterprise or achieve employment through effective upskilling,
“We believe, AflaYouth would be mainly useful for our partners who implement it outside formal school systems (focusing on informal education). Having said that, the curriculum can also be quite fruitful for technical and vocational training institutes and can be adapted for secondary and tertiary education students, preparing to join the workforce,” adds Michelle Tjeenk Willink, Senior Curriculum Manager at Aflatoun.
About Aflatoun
Aflatoun International is a non-governmental organisation offering social and financial education to children and young people worldwide, empowering them to make a positive change for a sustainable future. Through a strong network of 275 partner organisations and 38 governments, Aflatoun International reaches 8.6 million children and young people each year in more than 100 countries. Aflatoun’s social and financial education allows children and young people to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequality, turning dependence into independence.
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Aflatoun International
Aflatoun International
Who We Are:
Aflatoun International is an NGO based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands offering social and financial education to children and young people worldwide. Through a strong network of 275 partners, the organization reaches nearly 9 million children and young people each year in more than 100 countries. Aflatoun creates high-quality curricula - which aims to harness the personal, interpersonal, financial, and entrepreneurial skills of children and the youth - and can be contextualized to local needs or specific circumstances. Aflatoun’s range of age-specific, activity-based curricula educates children about interpersonal skills, child rights, financial savings and enterprise. Aflatoun achieves this by improving the capacity of teacher-educators to use child-centered learning and active learning methods both in and out of school. Beyond promoting the integration of social and financial education for children and the youth into both formal and informal curricula, Aflatoun also supports small youth-led community projects and financial enterprises, and provides technical support to our partner organizations and to governments on contextualizing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating, and scaling up social and financial education.
Our Mission:
Aflatoun International’s mission is to ensure access to inclusive social and financial education for all children and young people globally, especially the most vulnerable. Aflatoun believes that economic empowerment begins with the provision of children and young people with the technical skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to thrive in their communities and lead healthy lives.
A Brief History
Aflatoun was conceived in Mumbai, India in 1991 as an action research project launched by Jeroo Billimoria, with the aim of creating a space where children across all economic classes could meet and learn about each other’s lives. With the increase of rural-to-urban migration, ethnic tensions and child labor, the project grew into a space for children to harness their energy and creativity, as well as learn about money and savings to improve their prospects in life. Aflatoun started growing in response to the lack of opportunities to gain quality financial management and social awareness skills for children and young people. Aflatoun International formally came into being and its global journey began in 2005, when Aflatoun (Child Savings International) was established in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since then, as one of the leading non-profit organizations in this domain, Aflatoun International has been offering social and financial education to children and young people worldwide, empowering them to make a positive change for a more equitable world. To learn more, visit Aflatoun’s website (aflatoun.org) and our Global Social and Financial Skills Conference microsite (https://www.aflatoun.org/gsfsc2019/)
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