In today’s rapidly changing world, financial literacy is a crucial skill for children and young people, as it equips them with the knowledge and tools to make informed financial decisions, break the cycle of poverty and build a secure financial foundation for their future. The Fundamentals of Financial Literacy toolkit provides a simple five pillar framework to allow children and youth to reflect on and experiment with the basic concepts of finance and entrepreneurial skills.
Discover the Money Matters overview poster and the Payday Pioneers board game, two interactive panels covering the five fundamental pillars of financial literacy.
Find out more about the five fundamental pillars of financial literacy with the Money Matters overview poster.
Try to earn as much money as possible and experience the fundamental pillars of financial literacy during the Payday Pioneers board game.
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Learn more about what financial literacy entails and why its importance can hardly be overestimated in our online training programme. Discover more about the things you as a youth worker could do to boost the financial knowledge of your target group and get inspired by examples from other organisations around the globe that are committed to strengthen financial literacy skills of children and young people.
The Fundamentals of Financial Literacy toolkit was developed in the second half of 2023 in collaboration with the Khazana Foundation, an organisation dedicated to providing children with basic financial skills so they can become functional economic citizens. The toolkit offers an introduction to financial literacy, aiming to equip youth workers and vulnerable children with the knowledge and tools needed to make more conscious decisions about money. At the end of 2025, an additional module on entrepreneurial skills was introduced, designed to give children and youth workers practical tools to understand what entrepreneurial skills are and how these can be applied in daily life and in their own start-up initiatives.
