Let's Talk Money is a bilingual financial literacy and money management skills program to support women’s economic empowerment and capability.
For many immigrant and refugee women living in Australia even the most basic financial information is extremely difficult to access. Many women feel scared of banks, patronised and vulnerable when dealing with banking staff, and struggle with negotiating complex financial systems and information.
The majority of immigrant and refugee women come from predominantly cash-only societies, making the transition to bank-based financial systems difficult. Others report of pressures around handling their children’s expectations about money, and the need to send money home to their extended families. Many refugee women have had interrupted schooling and lack literacy and numeracy skills.
In many immigrant cultures, men tend to control the finances, which causes friction when women receive government income support to care for their children. In the instance of separation or death of a partner, a woman without financial literacy cannot adequately prepare for her own, or her family’s financial future.
Let’s Talk Money is a unique financial literacy program that aims to support the economic empowerment of immigrant and refugee women living in the northern metropolitan region of Victoria.
Let’s Talk Money recruits, employs and skills up women from diverse cultural backgrounds, to deliver practical financial literacy and money-management workshops to women in their own language and communities, covering:
Workshops are currently being delivered throughout Hume and Whittlesea to over 350 women from Indian, Assyrian, Iraqi, Syrian, Pakistani and Lebanese communities.
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