Come Enhance Your Financial Literacy!

If you know me, you know one thing I strongly believe will lift a lot of people out of poverty is education, and lots of it. Not only traditional education, but other non-conventional “outside the system” education as well. And yes, as cliché as it sounds, the sooner you start, the better.

It is for these reasons that when I met Tafara Mudenda, I agreed immediately to help her host her first financial literacy seminar, taking place on Saturday December 17, 2022 at the MulungushiInternational Conference Center. Mudenda’s goal is clear: to help bridge the gap and cater to the diverse range of Zambian needs in the field of financial literacy. “Our financial education seems to start and stop with budgeting,” she said during my first in-person meeting with her. This seminar hopes to bring together a diverse group of panelists and presenters to address other aspects of financial literacy, such as cash flow management, dealing with debt, and different types of investment vehicles.

Mudenda, who has a double major in Biology & Psychology, looks at financial literacy in a unique way, analyzing their people and their habits to almost build a financial profile of them and help them decide their financial path based on their behaviors. I speak from experience on this because she gave me quite a dressing down when I explained my financial habits to her. With vast experience as a Credit and Investment Advisor at one of Canada’s biggest banks, she has seen a wide range of financial profiles, from the most frugal, to the absolutely reckless, and everything in between. Drawing from this, she would like to share what she has learned to be some of the best financial literacy advice and information with young Zambians to help them with their financial journeys. What drew me the most to be the MC at this seminar is her enthusiasm, attention to detail, and her desire to contextualize the information she will be sharing for a Zambian audience (again, if you know me, you know how much I believe in context).

All in all, this promises to be unique learning experience for anyone looking to broaden their financial perspective, and learn a thing or two about money. With a global recession forecast for 2023, enhancing your personal finance knowledge isn’t a bad way to start to shield yourself from some of the anticipated adversity.

Tickets are going for only K100 and can be bought on Quicketusing this link: https://www.quicket.co.zm/events/202370-financial-literacy-seminar-empowering-the-youth-of-today-to-achieve-financial-f/?ref=events-list#/

I hope to see you there! Let’s learn together!