The Central Bank (BC) is going to offer a financial education course to more than 100,000 schools. Municipal, state and federal education networks must promote the program's classes. The name of the initiative is PLA-POU-CRÉ.
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The course is based on “Planning (PLA)”, “Savings (POU)” and “Credit (CRÉ)”. From these words were taken the initials that form the name of the project. The goal, according to BC, is to train more than 5 million students by the end of 2022.
Understand about economics and savings
The first stage of the program will address issues of the budget and the flow of money “in and out”. The second will deal with the concept of saving money. Active and passive savings are mechanisms dealt with in this step.
The third part of the course will address the different types of financing and loans. Students will know how they work and when it is indicated to use them.
It is worth mentioning that the classes will be aimed at Elementary School. “Perhaps the child does not take advantage of the CRE because he does not have access to the financial system, or he has some difficulty with the POU because the resources are scarce, but I want to instill the concept in him”. This is what the director of Institutional Relations at the BC, Maurício Moura, tells Agência Estado.
“I want you to know that if you save R$1 or R$2 of R$10, even if it is obtained on the street, and spend the other R$ 8, when she gets to the end of a month or two she may have an amount of money she didn’t have”, added.
Project started in April
The pilot (test) version of the project started in April and reached five states in the Union. Pará, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná and the Federal District will participate.
In this first stage, 10,400 schools were reached. In all, 1,630 municipalities participated, totaling 308,000 students. Now, the second phase of the program should be expanded in early 2022 to reach the expected 5 million.
Furthermore, the project should also impact education professionals. In all, 1.2 million school workers will be included.
“Often, teachers do not have the financial education to manage their own resources and have little time to develop financial education programs”, said the BC director to Agência State.
Photo: Leonardo Sá/Agência Senado