In October, Nguyen Van Thuy, a primary school teacher at Hung Son Primary and Secondary School in Luong Son town, Luong Son district, was one of three Vietnamese representatives to receive the Inspiring Teacher Award at the Asia-Pacific Cha-Ching Financial Accreditation (CCFA) Teacher Conference for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Teacher Nguyen
Van Thuy guides students in a game as part of the Cha-Ching Financial Literacy
Project.
Twenty-eight years of experience in teaching, 10 years as an
exemplary head of the school’s Ho Chi Minh young pioneer organisation awarded a
certificate of merit by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central
Committee, and many years earning the title of Excellent Teacher at the school
and district levels are Thuy’s impressive achievements. In the 2023-2024
academic year, Hung Son Primary and Secondary School implemented the Cha-Ching
financial literacy project for the first time for the fourth and fifth graders.
Thuy was one of the seven teachers at the school who received training to teach
in accordance with this new model.
With his enthusiasm and creativity in every lesson, Thuy has
been highly praised by the school administration and the advisory board of the
Cha-Ching Financial Literary for Kids Programme. Among the three Vietnamese
awardees, he had the honour of representing Vietnam to deliver a bilingual
speech in both Vietnamese and English at the online conference summing up the
programme held on October 18.
The teacher expressed his honour to be selected as one of
the 16 teachers from the Asia-Pacific region to receive this award, adding that
this is not only a personal achievement but also the result of the collective
efforts of both the teachers and students of Hung Son Secondary and Primary
School.
The programme, organised by Prudential Vietnam Life
Insurance Company in collaboration with Junior Achievement (JA) Vietnam, equips
children aged 7 to 12 with financial management knowledge and skills, helping
them cultivate smart financial habits. It focuses on four key skills: earning
money, saving, spending, and donating. After five years of operation in
Vietnam, Cha-Ching is being taught at 314 primary schools in Hanoi, and Hoa
Binh, Hung Yen, Quang Ninh, Quang Binh, Dong Nai, and Dong Thap provinces.
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