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Sounding of the gong by Child & Youth Finance International marks Global Money Week 2017

Global Money Week (GMW), an initiative of Child & Youth Finance International (CYFI), is an annual international event to create money awareness. Global Money Week engages children worldwide in learning how money works, including saving, creating livelihoods, gaining employment, and entrepreneurship. Child & Youth Finance International sounds the gong.

In 2016, over 7 million youngsters took part in 33,000 activities across 132 countries. The theme of Global Money Week 2017 is ‘Learn.Save.Earn.’, with a focus on educating children and youth about their social and economic rights and responsibilities, building clever savings habits and developing livelihoods and entrepreneurial skills.

CYFI is an international organization based in Amsterdam. CYFI has taken on the challenge of reshaping financial systems – by making sure that everyone works together to help children and youth become empowered economic citizens Through collaboration they ensure that national authorities, CEOs, heads of NGOs, academics, media personalities and young people work together today to make tomorrow more sustainable, equal and stable.

For more information: www.globalmoneyweek.org

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