BHBNewsLetter June 2019

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Issue 20 - JUNE 2019
BAHRAIN BOURSE HOLDS 2018-2019 SMART INVESTOR FINAL EVENT
The 2018-2019 Smart Investor
Program, organized by Bahrain
Bourse in collaboration with
INJAZ Bahrain, was concluded
with a visit of 150 students from
61 participating schools who
participated in the program to
Bahrain Bourse’s premises with
the attendance of the Chief
Executive Officer of Bahrain Bourse,
Assistant Undersecretary for
General & Technical Education
at the Ministry of Education
Mrs. Latifa Bunudha along
with officials from INJAZ
Bahrain and school coordinators.
During the event, students were
introduced to various concepts
related to the content covered
during the past six months, with
the aim of ensuring and reinforcing
the understanding of students
to the concepts learned. Various
activities focusing on the
importance of money and
saving, critical thinking, analysing
and specif ying, emotional
i n t e l l i g e n c e , e m p a t h y ,
and collaboration. It is worth to
mention that the Smart Investor
Program was officially launched
in September 2018. The Program
consists of 7 themed sessions
designed to equip students with
the following concepts: Thinking,
S p e c i f y i n g , P l a n n i n g ,
Execution, Saving, Progression, and
Evaluation. Participating students
receive a magazine which includes
comics and hands-on exercises on
the abovementioned concepts.
During the 2018-2019 academic
year, the Smart Investor program
has been implemented across
76 schools, 212 classes, with the
support extended form 212
educ ators t arget ing more
than 5500 students within
Grade 4 elementar y level.
Bahrain Bourse is particularly
thankful to the Ministry of
Education for the support
extended to ensure the successful
implementation of the Smart
Investor program as well as the
following institutions who have
sponsored the ‘Smart Investor’
program for the academic year
2018-2019 in the aim of spreading
financial knowledge across
the youth: Strategic sponsors
include: Labour Fund (Tamkeen).
Gold Sponsors include: GPIC.
Silver sponsors include: Bahrain
Islamic Bank, BBK, Ithmaar Bank,
and National Bank of Bahrain.