Social & Financial Education

SSF aims to develop educational support programs for children who run a high risk for being trafficked.  SSF helps these children by protecting them from all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse including: commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labor and child marriage. While providing children with shelter and food is important, SSF knows that such forms of relief are only temporary solution, and do little to equip the children to provide for themselves later on in life. SSF intends to dvelop these children to have their potential to be agents of change in their own live and that of others. To do so, SSF is inspires these children to empower themselves by offering them social and economic edcuation.

Five core elements of Aflation's Child Social and Financial
Education below were adopted and implemented:

1) Personal understanding and exploration
Children investigate their own personal values. Through exploration of citizenship ideas and ongoing interaction with peers, each choose the values that they feel are right for them. Financial ethics are explored and children learn the importance of balancing financial skills with the judgement to use these skills responsibly.

2) Rights and responsibilities
Aflatoun is grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990), which identifies four sets of interdependent rights. Responsibilities go hand in hand with those rights and children learn about their responsibilities towards themselves, their family, the environment and their community.

3) Saving and spending
Financial empowerment hinges not only onconstructive personal value systems, but also on specific, practical skills. Children learn how to save and how to spend in a responsible manner.

4) Planning and budgeting
Financial empowerment is achieved when children use their saving and spending skills to maximise their life choices. For example, a consistent savings habit can enable a child to stay in school for longer when payment for education is required.

5) Child enterprise
Children are encouraged to view themselves as active
participants in and shapers of their community. Through
classroom activities children conduct social and/or
financial enterprises to see how they can have a positive
impact on their community.