SAGE Nigeria prevails at the 2015 Child and Youth International Awards held at the House of Lords in London, hosted by Baroness Valerie Howarth, Baroness of Breckland.

A SAGE Nigeria student of Junior Secondary School Airport ,Abuja Ms.Amina Abdulsamed has won the 2015 CYFI  Youth Financial Inclusion Innovation Award.The ceremony held at the House of Lords in London ,hosted by Baroness Valerie Howarth, Baroness of Breckland on the 10th Dec.2015.

The ceremony recognized the efforts and success of those working to achieve economic empowerment for young people .The Youth Financial Inclusion Innovation Award category recognizes the ability of  children and youth to make use of the innovative technology and /or media means to create new ways of facilitating the use of child friendly financial products and banking services .

Mr.Tunde Akinfolarin  the SAGE team  coach who was also at the event in London stated that “Most of the games on financial literacy like Monopoly and our own Bizkidz are hard copy games or computer games. This is a mobile app that anyone can have access to.” 

Money Maker is a smartphone game providing financial education in an innovative way. The mobile app teaches people, particularly youth, about savings, investment, starting small scale businesses, measurement of profit and loss and general business principles/rudiments as youth unemployment is a very pressing issue in Nigeria. 

Most of the games that already exist teaching financial literacy, like Monopoly and their own game “Bizkidz”, are hard copy games or computer games. Money Maker, on the other hand, is a mobile app that anyone can have access to as most people have phones which are more portable than laptops and desktops. 

The Money Maker app was developed in order to be dedicated to combing the importance of financial knowledge 
with the importance of today’s young future leaders in

a manner that is relevant to the digital lifestyle of youth 
today. Via this app, youth learn about the practical aspect of business, and the application shows that success in business requires skill and an element of luck. 

Most of the young people who have used the award winning Money Maker app appreciate the concept and the 
easy way it uses animation to teach young people what they can do with small amounts of money. 

•  Money Maker is an eco-friendly game which discourages the use paper/falling of trees to reduce the menace of global warming. 
•  Money Maker has won the Best Entrepreneurship Project at the 2015 SAGE competition in Abuja, Nigeria. 
• Most of the people who have played Money Maker appreciate the concept and the easy way it uses animation to teach youths what they can do with small amount of money. 
•  Money Maker’s main focus is to imbibe the culture of self-reliance and self-employment from their youth. 

L-R Mr.Tunde Akinfolarin- SAGE Team Coach ,Ms.Amina Abdulsamed and Jeroo Billimoria -Founder /Director -Child and Youth Finance International 

In the past few years, SAGE Nigeria in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria has been at the forefront in championing financial inclusion and education in Nigeria ,through the SAGE programme students learn hands-on how to save,invest and bank!