Category: Environment

Angat Kabataan! The APC’s Youth Summer Camp 2015

When I read in an American news website that the the US kids do not get enough financial education in school, my heart broke. Not for the American kids but for the Filipino youth.

If the Americans find it very unfortunate that the majority of their students do not receive even a basic financial foundation, what more about our Filipino youngsters?

In the US, some 15 to 20 states require high school students to take a personal finance or economics course as a requirement for graduation. In the Philippines, only a handful of private schools offer mandatory subjects tackling entrepreneurship, cooperative management, banking basics, etc. Continue reading Angat Kabataan! The APC’s Youth Summer Camp 2015

Avoid the Corona Virus (MERS-COV) – Infographic

There has been a handful of invitations sent to us lately from various OFW groups in the Middle East to give talks and educational sessions on personal finance and investing. However, these recent challenging development has prompted us to beg off from some of these invitations especially if the proposed seminar is to be conducted in hospital vicinities. We also have to protect our team’s families and ourselves. We hope our kababayans will understand this.

And so today we give way to “investing in health information” to spread awareness to our OFW’s based in the Middle East and Europe where the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-COV) has infected and killed a few but have terrified millions of people in these regions.

What is MERS? What are the symptoms if one has been infected by this new Corona virus? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones from being infected? Continue reading Avoid the Corona Virus (MERS-COV) – Infographic

Signs That You Are Sending Bad Financial Messages To Your Kids

My wife and I have started homeschooling our 4-year old daughter this school year (Update: She’s already finishing her 4th Grade this summer 2020, amidst the COVID19 pandemic).

I personally know some friends who have been homeschooling their kids and it’s just amazing to see how strong their family bondings are because of this method of teaching and learning.

One more reason why we want to homeschool our daughter is because we believe that personal finance is one of the least taught subjects in the Philippines (and elsewhere). Money is a very important subject for a child to learn and bring the knowledge along until he/she becomes an adult. And since my wife and I are both staunch advocates of financial literacy, we thought why not teach our child about money ourselves.

Through the homeschooling system, parents like us won’t have to spend so much time giving lectures to our children. We just have to show them how we value money in our everyday lives. Continue reading Signs That You Are Sending Bad Financial Messages To Your Kids