Iran-developed Software to Help Children Become Familiar with Financial Matters
On the sidelines of Asreh Omid exhibition held by the Islamic Azad University in Tehran in late May, Akhtar Sadat Oliayee told ANA that she participated in the event with the start-up "Hamkad" in the ideas and startups section of the event.
Oliayee said that “Hamkad” is the acronyms for the Farsi name “Hamyare Mali KoodakDaneshamouz” (HAMKAD) or “Financial Assistant for Schoolchildren.”
She said that the program is for children aged between 4 and 18.
Hamkad application designer said she developed her program with the support of Islamic Azad University- Yazd branch’s Technology Development Center and added, “For the time being, the target community is the students of Sama schools in Yazd province. Azad University has also promised to cooperate, and I hope that this process will continue and will become available at the national level.”
“Now we have different websites and social networks. Our product is in the form of content and booklets,” the researcher added.
This researcher continued to note that the students do not know much about earnings and the ups and downs of their families’ incomes.
“Having been a teacher at schools for 15 years, I know that the problem is the lack of forward-looking perspective in students; because they have no knowledge of financial issues and they feel that their parents will always support them,” she continued.
Oliayee further advised parents to allow their children to stand on their feet and to allow them to face the challenges for themselves.
“Our goal is that children should be familiar with the concept of money, spending, saving and investing. Children should know that they cannot invest unless they have savings,” the researcher went on to say.
Elsewhere, Oliayee noted that there are similar applications in the country but they are psychological and do not help the children with financial knowledge.
She stressed that knowledge of the financial matters is more important than the psychological issues.
The national Asreh Omid Event was held in late May in Tehran’s Grand Mosalla with the participation of 3,000 knowledge-based companies, laboratories, research teams and startups.
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