Volunteering Opportunities

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- Course Descriptions:

Cha-Ching 
Ching Money-Smart Kids (“Cha-Ching”) is a highly-rated award-winning animation-and- music based financial literacy programme launched by Prudence Foundation. Ching programme takes an engaging, age-appropriate, musical narrative approach to teach children about four key fundamental money management concepts: Earn, Save, Spend and Donate. 
Ching video uses the best practices in learning theory to help children learn the above four concepts: songs as mnemonics; repetition as the key to mastery; age-appropriate, relevant, contextualised real-life scenarios; narratives as a hook and motivation and strategies that empower children to say, “I know what to do now". 

JA Our Families
Children tend to think everything they want is something they need.  Learning to recognize the difference between the two is one of the first crucial lessons in financial literacy.  By focusing on the roles of people play in their local economy, students understand the importance of work, and the tools and skills to get – or earn – what they want.
 
The goals of JA Our Families are: 
- Increase the students’ knowledge of how jobs provide for a family’s needs and wants.
- Help students become more aware of the types of jobs family members hold.
- Heighten the students’ awareness of how each person contributes to the well-being of the family
- Help the students learn the importance of working to pay for needs and wants
 
 
JA More than Money
 “What good is earning money if people aren’t taught how to save, spend and share it?  This programme instills these essential skills in students, and shows them how entrepreneurial thinking and financial savvy can transform an idea into a business that can generate jobs and wealth for themselves and their communities.
 
Students will be able to:
- Identify the role of money in everyday life.
- Think like entrepreneurs and identify a small business they can start.
- Learn the basic steps of starting a business.
- Consider the advantages and disadvantages of borrowing money.
- Explore the opportunities of global markets.
 

JA It's My Business
 If entrepreneurship is behind a country’s economic success, then what is behind entrepreneurship itself?  Can one learn to think and act like an entrepreneur?  Most definitely.  This program teaches students the four key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs:  believing in themselves; filling a need; knowing their customer and product; and being creative and innovative.
 
JA It’s My Business will provide an engaging, academically enriching, and experiential learning sessions in entrepreneurship.  The students will be able to:
 
-  Define entrepreneurship
-  Identify four key entrepreneurial characteristics
-  Describe how entrepreneurs fill a market need
-  Discuss the role of market research in determining market need and competitive advantage
-  Recognize how being creative and innovative are necessary entrepreneurial skills for starting a business
 -  Develop business plans based on a set criteria
 
Following participation in the program, students will be able to apply their entrepreneurship skills to education, career, and service pursuits.
 
JA Career Success
 JA Career Success equips students with the knowledge required to get and keep a job in high-growth industries.  Students will explore the crucial workplace skills employers seek but often find  lacking in young employees.  Students also will learn about valuable tools to find that perfect job, including resumes cover letters and interviewing techniques.
 
The following key topics will be discussed:
- 4Cs: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity
- Strong soft skills.
- Work priorities.
- STEM and other high-growth industries.
- Personal-brand and job-hunting tools – resumes, cover letters, interviews, and digital profiles.