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The campaign, organized by the City and the Association of Housewives, Consumers and Users, reaches 35 schools in the municipality until late December.

The goal is to educate the students of financial literacy

Students in 5th and 6th Primary learning these months, from October 13 until the end of December, to manage their own income and expenses.

And they do it through Primer of small ants, which is part of this year's campaign developed by the Association of Housewives, Consumers and Users and the City of Cartagena, Murcia with the Federation of Housewives , Consumers and Users.

With this initiative, and from the classrooms of Consumption, 35 small schools in the municipality will raise awareness about the importance of managing our savings.

The campaign, which is based on the fable The Grasshopper and the Ant, aims to improve financial literacy from an early age, which is more efficient training, explained Tuesday the president of the Federation of Housewives Consumers and Users, Juana Perez, during the presentation which was also attended by the mayor of Consumption, Alonso Gomez.

In this way, students and those in the centers of San Felix, Carthago or Albujón, among others, entrench the concepts of saving, budgeting, expense or income.

And make fun, dynamic and basic knowledge of the subject form.

In this class of small consumption are also a savings delivery symbolically and in Castilian and English, containing the issues that have been studied in these classes, as well as a simple table that may target the expenditure and income have a week or month, to get an idea of ​​how a budget is done.

The initiative, which has become a reference to the regional level, has been performing since 1999 with this group, although each year the theme changes.

So in recent years, social networks or covering renewable energy, as claimed today Carmen Aznar, president of the Association of Housewives, Consumers and Users of Cartagena.

Last year there were around 2,600 students who participated in this campaign, but with another theme, which also was directed at the Parents' Associations.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena