Tagum Cooperative’s Education Committee dedicates its second series of Webinar on Financial Literacy for Teenagers. Training participants are ages 13 to 20 years old who are regular or associate members of Tagum Cooperative and the TC Youth Laboratory Cooperative.
Teenage years tend to be a crucial period in one’s life as the young generation struggle for acceptance, seek for family comfort, bend to peer pressure, and make prompt choices just to test the waters. With this, Tagum Cooperative believes that it is also the time for teenagers to be taught on wise financial management which would aid them in wise decision making.
Training Facilitators include Board of Directors Member Monica L. Salido, M.M., Cooperative Secretary Hermarie T. Esmael, MA.Ed. and Cooperative Treasurer Admarie D. Marcelo, CPA, M.M. These facilitators introduced the basic concepts of financial literacy and the importance of saving from a young age. Participants were also taught on how to budget the hard-earned money given by their parents. Savings and investing opportunity were also rolled out anchoring on the various specialized savings products of the cooperative.
Tagum Cooperative calls to all parents; whose children are eighteen years old and above but are still members of the TC Youth Laboratory Cooperative, to convert their child’s membership to become regular members of the Cooperative. More benefits await regular members, including the privilege to attend other learning sessions that can be very useful in real life situations.
BOD Chairperson Rosalina S. Argent speaks to the participants, “You are blessed because you have been taught early on financial literacy. We were never given this opportunity that you have now. So start budgeting your money and save it for your future.”
The advocacy for continuing education for members, officers and employees ensures that owners of the cooperative are well-informed and updated. This is one of the best practices of Tagum Cooperative which is accords to its vision of becoming the icon of trust and excellence in social and financial services.