Ella Sydorenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Department of the Kesher Project, visited the Ternopil Community Center on a working visit and held a lecture for women on the topic of "Economic Literacy". Learning such a plan is an integral part of the organization's activities, along with the promotion of women's health, because it provides women with more freedom from the negative factors of today. The listeners were satisfied with the program and received new useful information.
Economic literacy training in Ternopil OC is conducted in detail and consistently. More than a year ago, the coordinator of the "Kesher Project" in the region, Olena Stakhanska, chose this topic as a priority for study and popularization. Since then, women can say with confidence, about improving their financial situation, because the program teaches them not only to save, but also plan the family budget correctly. To minimize costs, women determined the electricity consumption in their homes and learned to turn off "lossy" appliances at the right time and many other simple, but effective ways of saving. Every woman has her own notebook, in which records and calculations are kept, and the numbers in them really reflect the effectiveness of the performed manipulations.
Ella Sydorenko, which coordinates programs of economic direction, brought with her two unique lectures. Twenty-one students gathered to gain new knowledge, moreover, three of them came from the German community, with which the Community Center maintains a close friendly relationship. The first lecture was about competent preparation of the family budget, definition of expenditure items and planning.
But the second topic seemed to be new and extremely necessary - the education of economic literacy in children in a Jewish family. Children are our future and we always want to give them more. But that is why we often take wrong steps, which subsequently affect the child's further perception of money, which passes into adulthood. Hence, for example, by giving a child money every day for "pocket expenses", we form a wrong perception of finances in him, which can be compared to "manna from heaven" – whatever they do, and they are. Therefore, according to Ella Sydorenko, it is better to give money once a week in a larger amount, so that the child learns to plan his fortune and value money in general. And there were many such examples.
Although the classes lasted four hours with one coffee break, women survived this time "in one breath". Information that is useful nowadays is easily perceived, because there is a need for it. Since the Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation "Hesed Besht" aims to improve the situation of its clients, such cooperation with the "Kesher project" is positive and in demand.
Grateful listeners presented guests from Dnipropetrovsk with a piece of their needlework - a reyzel, and the employees of the OC ensured a comfortable stay in Ternopil and a tour of the Jewish part of the city. We hope so, that the new information will be useful in practice and contribute to the improvement of the well-being of women and their families.