Partner of the Week: Children, Communities and Families Moldova
Posted in Partner of The Week on April 19, 2018
Posted in Partner of The Week on April 19, 2018
Aflatoun International started a partnership with Children, Communities and Families Moldova at the end of 2007 when a group of educators came together to discuss the need for Social Financial Education for Moldovan society. The enthusiasm about the programme and the need of improving the understanding of financial issues, which is still low in Moldova, convinced them to introduce the programme, embracing young children, teenagers and also women.
In 2009 the first five schools adopted an Aflatoun pilot project and, after its successful completion, four out of five schools continued the implementation.
Thanks to three partnerships with Indigo centre school, the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) and the Ministry of Education, CCF was able to embrace the Aflatoun non-formal education and the Aflateen curriculum, alongside guaranteeing access to Social and Financial education to primary and secondary school children.
Given its success, the Ministry of Education of Moldova decided to introduce the SFE curriculum as an optional subject in the National Plan 2012-2013.
In the following academic year (2013-2014), it had already shown the second highest growth rate among twenty different optional courses, establishing its pivotal role in enabling access to social and financial skills for youngsters.
Over the last year, many different teachers and facilitators training took place all around Moldova and, after an accurate research driven by IES experts, with the main objective of exploring whether the SFE curriculum could be actually tailored to the existing subjects, the Ministry of Education announced its formal integration in the National Curricula.