Teaching Goodooga kids to handle money

Goodooga local Lavinia Gibbs will partner with Annette Rose from Kids Get Money to deliver financial literacy workshops in Bre Shire. Photo TWH

Young people from Goodooga will get a head start in money management next year, when a series of workshops on financial literacy comes to town.

It’s all part of a project funded by an ANZ Bank’s ‘Seeds of Renewal’ grant awarded to Moogahlin Performing Arts.

Lavinia Gibbs will lead the program in partnership with founder of “Kids Get Money,” Annette Rose

Lavinia is a Yuwaaliyaay woman who left the local area to follow a career in education while maintaining strong ties to her family and community at Goodooga.

The program aims to teach kids how to get, grow and manage money – it’s a fun program that gives kids money skills for life.

The program is being co-designed with the community and will be piloted during school holidays next year.

Ms Rose grew up living below the poverty line and said it was miserable and hard, and the scars that poverty leaves are deep. For many people, it’s a cycle that never ends.

This tough background motivated her to create a small business, Kids get money, and after meeting Lavinia, the idea of educating communities about money was born.

Ms Rose said that the project will be auspiced by Performing Arts – an arts company embedded in the community.” […]

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