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Issue 18 - DECEMBER 2018
BAHRAIN BOURSE LAUNCHES “SMART INVESTOR” PROGRAM IN
COLLABORATION WITH INJAZ BAHRAIN
Bahrain Bourse announced the
launch of the ‘SMART INVESTOR’
for the academic year 2018/2019
in collaboration with INJAZ
Bahrain. As part of the launch of
the program, Bahrain Bourse and
INJAZ Bahrain visited Khawarizmi
Primary Boys School on 11 th
December 2018 to attend one
of the Smart Investor Program
workshops and witness the
program in action at one of
the Government Schools in the
presence of Chairman of
Bahrain Bourse, Mr. Abdulkareem
Bucheer y, Chief Executive
Officer of Bahrain Bourse, Sh.
Khalifa bin EbrahimAl-Khalifa, and
Dr. Abdulrahman Jawahery,
President of GPIC and Board
Member of INJAZ Bahrain
and Mr. Hassan Jarrar, Chief
Executive Officer of Bahrain
Islamic Bank and Assistant
Undersecretary for General &
Technical Education at the Ministry
of Education Mrs. Latifa Bunudha.
The Smart Investor program
aims to spre ad financ i a l
knowledge through quipping young
students with basic concepts
related to money management,
savings and smart financial
p l ann i ng f o r t h e f u t u r e
through interactive edutainment
a c t i v it i e s . By p a r t i c ip at -
ing in the program, students
will be able to learn various
financial literacy terminologies,
recognize the importance of
savings and gain knowledge
on various financial planning
concepts to make sound financial
d e c i s i o n s . The P r o g r am
consists of 7 themed sessions
designed to equip students with the
following concepts: Thinking,
Specifying, Planning, Execution,
S a v i n g , P r o g r e s s i o n , a n d
Evaluation. During the 2018/2019
academic year, the Smart Investor
program has been implemented
across 61 schools, 148 classes, with
the support extended form 148
educators targeting more than
5200 students within Grade 4
element ar y le vel. SMART
INVESTOR program is open
to participation to various
elementary schools interested
in enriching financial literacy
concepts to their students.
Bahrain Bourse is particularly
thankful to the Ministry of
Education for the support extended
to ensure the successful imple-
mentation of the Smart Investor
program as well as the following
institutions who have spon-
sored the ‘Smart Investor’ pro-
gram in the aim of spreading
financial knowledge across the
youth: Strategic sponsors in-
clude: Labour Fund (Tamkeen).
Gold Sponsors include: GPIC.
Silver sponsors include: Bahrain
Islamic Bank, BBK, Ithmaar Bank,
and National Bank of Bahrain.