On the occasion of the Child and Youth Finance Week, 15 - 21 March, under the leadership of the Child and Youth Finance International based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a number of activities were taken by 185 financial education organizations, covering 1 million children and youth from at least 80 countries.

This week, a number of activities were organized in some primary schools in Skopje as a part of the Financial Education project of National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia.

In the previous period, representatives and some of the National Bank management visited 13 primary schools and held interactive classes designed and adapted for pupils from third to fifth grade. The teaching included a total of about 400 pupils. Under the slogan Learning By Playing, pupils were introduced to topics in the area of money, goals and tasks of the National Bank, banks, savings, etc.. To have an effect of the Financial Education project on pupils, these activities should provide a clear picture of what the central bank is and what are its basic goals and objectives as an institution in the country. Interactive classes included teaching pupils through interesting educational games and active participation and promotion of children's thinking in the overall discussion during lectures. In some schools, the teaching also involved the Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution. During the school visits, videos and photos were made that will long remain in the archives of the National Bank and some of them are available at the link Gallery. During the classes, pupils were given puzzles with a design of Macedonian money, brochures, cashboxes and other representative materials with the National Bank brand characters: the boy, the girl and the coin of one Denar named Denarko. Educational materials have been translated into Albanian, Romani, Turkish, Vlach and Serbian language and they will be periodically delivered to primary schools where the teaching takes place in any of the above mentioned languages??, and will be published on the National Bank website. Within the project, materials with educational contents that cover many economic aspects have been constantly published in magazines for children and youth: Drugarce, Razvigor and Nas Svet, which are regularly distributed to all primary schools in the country.

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