Financial Literacy Training From Wide Horizons Students at Gate 14
Financial
Literature Training From Wide Horizons Students
On 4th of January, Wide Horizons students
had received a 5-days financial literacy training from Khom Lay Foundation,
then we had delivered to Gate-14 community nearby Thai-Myanmar border in Mae
Sot. That training took place at Wide Horizons through 5 days which builds the
ability of facilitation skills for us as a trainer to contribute to community.
In this case, we consulted within group members to come out with an action plan
to set up the training, then confirm a successful consensus from group members.
In order to step the training, we had been divided into 4 groups with 6 members
for each because every member have to participate and facilitate as a trainers
in particularly. Moreover, it took time for translating English into Burmese,
practicing the public speaking in Burmese. Furthermore, the participants are
not only adults but also elders so that we are struggling with lesson plans to
adjust the level of concept of participants, and be flexible on plans.
Additionally, they are mostly migrants who are working at coal industries.
Before the period of training, by distributing the
flyers, we did an announcement in community.
Then approximately, the names of participants had been recorded over 40.
Based on the lists, we had prepared the criteria of training and contacted with
participants in order to remind them to attend the training. According to the amount
of participants, we had to compromise within groups due to gather the
stationery which is appreciate with market session’s game which acts as actual
market with attitude of customers, shopkeepers, police, industry, workers and
so on. On the other hand, we sponsored participants 30 baht for each with some
refreshment at the end of a day.
On the first day of training, over 40 participants
had attended with motivation and one out of four, participants are with
toddlers so that the trainers also needed to look after their kids such nanny. In
particular, even though Burmese is not our own languages, we tried our best
with full of compassion to distribute the knowledge to community. However, some
participants were busy with their daily work and homework. Moreover, accepting
the feedback from participants and analyze on it, then let the participants
picked raffles for incentives. On the end day of the training, one of the
participant’s group were appreciated the training and served the hospitality by
banqueting Mong Him Khar, gourd fritter, steam, and juice, etc. This banquet
with desserts was attracted trainers’ appetite and they ate those food
satisfactorily. All in all, we had
successfully accomplished throughout the training.
