Wikia-Operation HOPE Global Money Initiative Web Launch[]
First Global Financial Literacy Empowerment Tool Launched Via Online Press Conference at Casablanca Stock Exchange Aims to Improve the Level of Financial Knowledge and Risks to All Citizens[]
Wikia-Operation HOPE Global Money Initiative to provide culturally relevant financial literacy and economic empowerment curriculum in 50 languages worldwide
Through their pioneering partnership, financial literacy empowerment nonprofit Operation HOPE, Inc. (HOPE), the Casablanca Stock Exchange (CSE), and Wikia will launch the first global financial literacy tool from the CSE in Morocco.
Bringing together HOPE programming, Wikia’s online collaborative publishing platform and the leadership of the CSE, the Wikia-Operation HOPE Global Money Initiative allows community leaders to translate and adapt HOPE’s English language financial literacy curriculum for their communities. The goal of the initiative is to provide dozens of countries with the opportunity to have culturally-relevant financial literacy programming in over 50 languages throughout the world.
For those not able to attend the press conference at the Casablanca Stock Exchange, the entire event plus a live step-by-step explanation of the website will be streamed via web conference.
WHEN: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 5pm WET (Casablanca) | 12am EST (New York) | 9am PST (Los Angeles)
WHERE: REGISTRATION FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION
To receive a secure link to the presentation, please contact us at globalmoney@operationhope.org . Instructions will be sent via email.
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TO PARTICIPATE IN PERSON:
Casablanca Stock Exchange
Angle Avenue des Forces Armées Royales et
Rue Arrachid Mohamed
Casablanca, Maroc
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
• Karim Hajji, CEO Casablanca Stock Exchange
• John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO Operation HOPE
• Ambassador Andrew Young, Operation HOPE Global Spokesperson
• Mary Hagerty, First SVP and Global Chief of Financial Literacy, Operation HOPE
CONTACT:
Sana Jamai, Casablanca Stock Exchange| 011 212 6 61 638 874 |JAMAI@casablanca-bourse.ma
Sherry John, Operation HOPE | 213 361 6855 | sherry.john@operationhope.org