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Old Mutual to train 700 girls on financial literacy

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Old Mutual Limited (OML)

OLD Mutual has announced plans to train as many as 700 women and girls in the southern parts of the country on financial literacy.

This was revealed by Old Mutual Regional Manager Southern region Crispen Nemunyadzo on the side-lines of a financial literacy seminar held at the Academy of Music in Bulawayo.

Addressing participants during the official opening of the seminar, Nemunyadzo said the financial literacy training programmes conducted in partnership with the Primary and Secondary Education ministry have been spread to various parts of Matabeleland.

 “Old Mutual has been doing this financial literacy programme for quite a number of years and we have been using the behaviours of the big five (special species animals) to capacitate the participants,” Nemunyadzo said.

 “We want our girls, our women to manage their finances properly. We go to churches to train, we go to companies, we go to schools; Our teams were in Binga, Plumtree, Gwanda to train people with fundamentals of financial literacy.

“We want to make sure that no one is left behind. We believe that women and girls have the power to change situations if they are given the right skills. This is why we run this programme. We want to impart skills on girls at an early age.”

In a speech read on her behalf by deputy director coordination in the Ministry of State Beulah Gwaze, Bulawayo Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Judith Ncube said the training programmes were empowering girls and women.

“It is important to acknowledge the interventions of Old Mutual together with their partners Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education as well as girls in Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM),” Ncube said.

Bulawayo deputy Junior Mayoress Grace Nyoni hailed the seminar as necessary to capacitate girls to manage and plan their financial independence.

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