FROM today onwards, some 79 children of KACA will start to learn the importance of saving by dropping 20 cents to a dollar a day into a coin bank made from used cans.

To inculcate the habit of saving, KACA or Persatuan Kanak Kanak Cacat launched the KACA’s saving 2010- 2015 project yesterday.

The guest of honour at the launch was Dato Paduka Hj Zainal bin Hj Momin, President of KACA.

Haji Awang Abd Alim bin Hj Awang Othman, Managing Director of KACA Centre in his welcoming remark said, “The launch of the project for the coming five years until 2015 is a long term programme of KACA.”

The rationale behind the project, he explained, was that, “When KACA children grow up to become mature adults, they should be smart in handling monies and not otherwise because they have never been educated to manage monies. Currently in the educational system, we have yet to charted out financial education to children with special needs. The result is that in the long run, they may experience problems in managing their finances and have to rely on their parents because we have not equipped them with the skills in managing their monies.”

He also reminded parents to set a good example for KACA children by practising self-discipline in finance.
He said, “Children will always look up to us as examples, if we save, the children would follow . The practise of savings is not learnt from school but it comes from within the family.”

Among the objectives of the project, he said, “was to instil the habit of savings among the children of KACA so that they would know the importance of savings in the future and not depend on others”.

Haji Awang Abd Alim also revealed that a bank in Brunei is prepared to provide assistance to KACA in the savings project by conducting briefings to parents, volunteers and staff of KACA in the coming days.

Describing KACA, he said, “The main aim of KACA centre in all districts is to become a benchmark to place programmes/activities to create a special training insitute that can prepare educational and recovery facilities based on early development and special education from one year to 12 years old.
He said, “Currently KACA has 489 members in all four district.”

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