Save Smart: Gender-Responsive Financial Literacy Training for Migrant Workers and their Families (Vientiane)

TRIANGLE in ASEAN, in partnership with Atikha Overseas Workers and Communities Initiative, Inc. (Atihka), will host a series of Save Smart Training of Trainers (TOT): Gender-Responsive Financial Literacy Training for Migrant Workers and their Families that will enable staff of TRIANGLE in ASEAN-supported Migrant Worker Resource Centres (MRCs) and partners to provide financial literacy skills to migrant workers and their families.

The training package aims to provide MRC staff and partners with an overview of setting migration and financial goals, borrowing and getting out of debt, saving and investing, sending remittances, managing an income, and managing finances upon returning home. It also intends to enable participants to then share the training in their own MRCs. Given women and girls generally have less access to migration and financial information, this training series will specifically address financial education and literacy for women and girls.

The TOTs schedule is as follows:

• May 15-17 – Vientiane, Lao PDR
• May 22-24 – Mandalay, Myanmar
• June 5-7 – Phnom Penh, Cambodia