ANZ yesterday announced that 17 women from VANWODS attended ANZ’s award winning financial literacy program, MoneyMinded at PMC’s Owen Hall in Port Vila.
The MoneyMinded workshop was run by accredited ANZ facilitators from Vanuatu and covered the basics of planning for the future, budgeting and making money last.
During the MoneyMinded workshops participants are encouraged to share their real life experiences with budgeting and participate in activities using simple tools and tips provided to better manage money and to empower them to make decisions.
The 17 women were all given a certificate at the end of the workshop and came away more confident and with a better understanding of how to manage their money.
On opening the MoneyMinded workshop, Steve Rogers, ANZ Vanuatu CEO said, “It’s great to see everyone here today participating in MoneyMinded being delivered by our newly trained facilitators to VANWODS staff who provide accessible financial and business development services to economically marginalised individuals and communities in Vanuatu.”
“MoneyMinded has been helping people build their financial skills, knowledge and confidence across Asia and the Pacific since 2010. Here in Vanuatu, we’ve been delivering MoneyMinded to our staff, members of the community and customers since 2012 -including over 310 participants to date.”
Many of the participants at the MoneyMinded workshop have requested ANZ to bring the program to their families and to rural areas of Vanuatu.
MoneyMinded, ANZ’s flagship financial literacy program, has been successfully delivered to some 6000 people across the Pacific since it was introduced in 2010.
VANWODS started as a pilot project implemented under the then Department of Women and culture in 1996 with financial and technical support from the United Nations Development Programme. With the successful piloting of the project, a full project was developed under the UNDP country programme in 1997. After five years of operation, it reached a size and stage that it became desirable to transform the Project into an independent beneficiary-owned organisation registered under the Charitable Associations Act of Vanuatu.
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