Education programs of the Bank Millennium Foundation

[GRI FS16] Since 2016, the Bank Millennium Foundation has been running its own financial education program for kindergarten children, called the “Financial ABCs.” In 2020 and 2021, despite the pandemic, the Foundation continued to execute the project remotely by creating a series of modern educational materials for children and their parents. One of its new components is the 4th episode of the cartoon movie featuring Mr. Sebastian, which in an accessible manner explains to kids the basics of finance, modern technologies and issues of online security. Printed handbooks, which have their counterparts in multimedia-version cartoon movies, are accessible on the Foundation’s YouTube channel.

For preschoolers, their parents and all other persons interested in this topic, other online educational materials are also useful, such as a guide for parents “How to teach finance to children” with tips on educating children and interviews with Dr. Małgorzata Chojak of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin on the same topic.

In November and December 2021, as part of the seventh edition of the program, the Foundation conducted 200 workshops in 54 kindergartens. Over 5,000 preschoolers aged 3 to 6 participated in these workshops. According to observations, the pandemic only contributed to the dissemination of the knowledge taught during of the workshops. The challenges faced by families in terms of changes in the labour market, household budget management and flexible responses to changes continue to be reflected in the project curriculum. Because project meetings took place during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a special epidemiological and sanitary procedure was developed prior to the launch of activities, and all meetings were conducted in compliance with sanitary guidelines.