Project FinLit is Chanakya's financial literacy outreach — interactive workshops run through games and discussion for children in underserved communities, where the syllabus is not the point and the habit is.
Most financial education arrives far too late, and usually only to people who were already going to find it. Project FinLit exists to reach the other side of that gap. Our members visit NGOs and community schools and run sessions on the things nobody formally teaches: what saving actually does, why borrowing costs more than the number on the sticker, and how to tell a scheme from a scam.
The sessions are deliberately built around games rather than slides. A child who has played through a month's household budget remembers it; a child who has been lectured about one does not.
Counted from the album on this page — every photograph shown is one we took.
The idea that what you keep is a decision rather than what happens to be left over.
What interest actually does over time, played out rather than defined.
How to recognise the offer that is too good, before it costs a household its savings.
Our opening visit — introducing saving, spending and the idea that money can be planned rather than simply spent.
A return session building on the first, moving into budgeting exercises and group discussion.