Experiential Learning

Financial Education Centre (FEC), Hong Kong Family Welfare Society (HKFWS) is a charitable non-governmental social welfare organisation established in 1949. We aim to deliver quality and professional social services to enhance the well-being of families and individuals in Hong Kong in order to foster a caring community. We have been providing services including integrated family services, integrated children and youth services, elderly and community support services, child care services and other specialised services.

Since 2007, the project ‘The Children Financial Literacy Project’ has been launched and delivered different financial education programmes to different schools. In 2017, we established the Financial Education Centre in Lai Chi Kok so as to root ourselves in the community. FEC is designed to promote financial literacy of children, youth and parents through experiential activities, edutainment programmes and social media platforms, and to reach out to different social strata in the society.

Objectives

Our centre is supported by various renowned funders such as HSBC, Community Chest, Hand Seng Bank, etc. The projects aim to:

• enhance the awareness of the importance of financial literacy in the community
• enhance the financial well-being of the younger generation, as well as their parents, in primary, secondary and tertiary levels
• develop the Financial Social Work model in the social welfare sector, from financial education to clinical intervention in Hong Kong. Since the project focuses on developing students’ attitudes and behaviours of financial management from childhood, FEC's service targets are mainly primary and secondary school students and their parents.

Project Details

• The unit is going to organise a secondary school programme in the form of an online quiz. Students will be involved in setting online quiz questions in different financial aspects of Hong Kong.
• The unit used to organise programmes in the forms of experiential games, parent-child interactive challenges and groups. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the programme as assistants to social workers to carry out the programme.
• HKU students are expected to collaborate to complete the tasks. Besides, HKU students are also responsible for assisting in any activities, including delivery of materials, preparation of programme materials, evaluation data collection, some basic administrative work, on-site programme support, etc.

There are several funded projects that target different service users. During the EL period, the centre will serve primary and secondary school students and their families, users from special schools, volunteers and professionals in general.