MINOR FINANCIAL LITERACY by KARUNGI DIANA of LUZIRA SECONDARY SCHOOL.
A student article submitted as participation in the 2018 Schools’ Financial Inclusion Challenge. #SchoolChallenge #IncludeEveryone #DIAA2018
KARUNGI DIANA, [S.5 ARTS] , LUZIRA SECONDARY SCHOOL.
POEM
MINOR FINANCIAL LITERACY
We are the minors!
We are the minors, ignorant
About money,
All we know is spending
And wasting money.
And we are proud
To be the spenders
We buy what’s trending with our money.
Betting on sports with our money
Don’t care if we lost and it is taken,
And we are proud to be the spenders.
We are the minors
Dear fellow minors, let’s all awake
And rise up from this poverty sleep
That is wondering as “swift as the wind’’
Grabbing and devouring, we the minors
By inserting the attitude
Of spending and wasting
Our finances.
Shh! Who are you to criticize our ways?
We do what we want,
And want what we do!
With our money,
‘’The fruits of our work’’
The harvest of our parents
Why care more?
Yet we care less
We are the minors!
Dear fellow minors, saving is good,
Through saving, we achieve
Our dreams and expectations
In the future.
Saving helps us
To have a financial backup
When unfore seen circumstance
Rise our way.
Investment of our money
Is also’’ great’’
For industrialization, Professionisation, and sensitization.
Ohh! Now we understand
So this is how saving is important,
Relieving us the burden of borrowing from others,
Lowering the level of depending on others
For financial support,
In the future.
And we shall not depend on our husbands
For financial support.
Hmm! And we shall not depend on our wives
For financial support in the future,
For we shall be financially stable!
Ohh! That’s right! Financial discipline
Is also important through managing,
Investing and banking,
Setup financial goals,
And take up the actions to
Complish these goals.
And this is the key to financial success.
Learn to save before you spend,
And choose to be financially literate,
With ambition, mission and vision.
Come future, we are ready
Come tomorrow, we are ready
To step up with confidence
And receive you with open hands
We are the financially literate minors!
Skilling the minors is also important,
Through clubs like ‘’EDUCATE CLUB’’
To learn new skills for income generation,
Like liquid soap making, candle making,
Craft work making and many, many more
Other skills for income generation.
‘’To make the wallet happy’’
And desist from the ‘’ dependency syndrome’’
On parents and guardians.
Empowering them at the sometime
We are the minors, the future of tomorrow,
The Strength of our nation,
The sun in the dark,
Poverty night
We rise and shine to overcome the poverty.
By saving, Investing, managing,
Skilling and controlling our finances
As financially free literate minors
And we are proud to be
The financially literate minors!