Financial Literature Training At Wide Horizons

On 4^th of January, Wide Horizons students had received a 5-days financial literacy training from Khom Lay Foundation, then we had delivered to Gate-14 community nearby Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Sot. That training took place at Wide Horizons through 5 days which builds the ability of facilitation skills for us as a trainer to contribute to community. In this case, we consulted within group members to come out with an action plan to set up the training, then confirm a successful consensus from group members. In order to step the training, we had been divided into 4 groups with 6 members for each because every member have to participate and facilitate as a trainers in particularly. Moreover, it took time for translating English into Burmese, practicing the public speaking in Burmese. Furthermore, the participants are not only adults but also elders so that we are struggling with lesson plans to adjust the level of concept of participants, and be flexible on plans. Additionally, they are mostly migrants who are working at coal industries.

Before the period of training, by distributing the flyers, we did an announcement in community.  Then approximately, the names of participants had been recorded over 40. Based on the lists, we had prepared the criteria of training and contacted with participants in order to remind them to attend the training. According to the amount of participants, we had to compromise within groups due to gather the stationery which is appreciate with market session’s game which acts as actual market with attitude of customers, shopkeepers, police, industry, workers and so on. On the other hand, we sponsored participants 30 baht for each with some refreshment at the end of a day.

On the first day of training, over 40 participants had attended with motivation and one out of four, participants are with toddlers so that the trainers also needed to look after their kids such nanny. In particular, even though Burmese is not our own languages, we tried our best with full of compassion to distribute the knowledge to community. However, some participants were busy with their daily work and homework. Moreover, accepting the feedback from participants and analyze on it, then let the participants picked raffles for incentives. On the end day of the training, one of the participant’s group were appreciated the training and served the hospitality by banqueting Mong Him Khar, gourd fritter, steam, and juice, etc. This banquet with desserts was attracted trainers’ appetite and they ate those food satisfactorily.  All in all, we had successfully accomplished throughout the training.