Sustainability

Financial Education

In 2013 when we started to provide Nano Finance service to wet-market vendors, we began to be aware of the financial management problem faced by this group of customers. As a result, we initiated a financial literacy program to create financial knowledge opportunities as we believe that "basic financial knowledge is a key to sustainable development of quality of life." This program was further developed into the “Financial Knowledge to Communities for Life Rolling Forward Project” in 2015 to engage Ngern Tid Lor’s employees, factory workers, and communities under the Creating Shared Value concept. The project allowed Ngern Tid Lor’s employees to propose prospective communities and organize financial literacy activities as volunteers.

In 2018, we expanded the program to provide financial literacy to prisoners under the “Kamlangjai” project under the royal initiative of HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha. We developed basic financial knowledge and organized literacy activities for prisoners. We also organized the Train the Trainer program to educate prison guards and volunteer probation officers so that they could pass on the financial knowledge and provide basic advice to prisoners.

To date, Ngern Tid Lor has organized 191 activities to bring knowledge to communities, with 5,203 participants and 912 Ngern Tid Lor volunteers participating in the activities. In addition, we have provided training to 903 prisoners from 9 prisons and trained 212 prison guards and probation officers in the “Train the Trainer” program.