Building Foundations: Opening Doors to Financial Confidence Adjunct Prof Dr Jessie Jong | Personal Budgeting Workshop - CarersPlus Asia
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Ask people what carer training covers and most will picture clinical skills — vitals, medication charts, care plans. Money management doesn't usually make that list, but it probably should. For many of our students, this workshop was the first time anyone had sat down with them and talked, plainly, about pay, budgeting, and what it takes to plan for a future that's actually theirs. On Saturday, August 29, we were glad to welcome Adjunct Professor Dr Jessie Jong Chung Jin (A.S.D.K) to lead a session on personal budgeting fundamentals — tracking expenses, setting goals, and thinking a little further ahead than the next payday. The room stayed engaged well past the hour we'd planned for; students asked real questions about their own situations, not textbook ones. Money Feels Different When You're on Your Own Many of our students grew up in kampungs, where a lot of everyday costs are shared without anyone quite totting them up — a meal at home, a lift from a neighbor, f...
