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[00:00:00] Speaker A: The best insight, instant feedback, accountability. The all new talk radio Freedom 106.5. Let's start our introductions. Let's say hello to the head of culture and communication at Anselm account. That's Sarah Inglefield.
[00:00:16] Speaker B: Good morning. Good morning.
[00:00:18] Speaker A: Nice to have you with us here this morning.
We also have with us country manager wisdom CRM. That's Sharia Plowden. I got that correct.
[00:00:29] Speaker C: Yes. Good morning Trinidad and Tobago and thank you so much satish for having us.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Nice to have you with. And we have schools communications manager at Wisdom CRM. That's Chloe Joseph. Good morning to you.
[00:00:41] Speaker D: Good morning and thank you for having us.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: Nice to have all of you here with us here this morning.
It's a pretty interesting initiative literacy platform. We can get all the nice correct words to describe it, but what I want to do is I want you all to tell us exactly what it is. We are here to speak about wisdom CRM. So let's begin by asking again, what's the obvious question? What is wisdom CRM?
[00:01:16] Speaker C: Alright, so we are.edu technology. We're an educational technology platform and we utilize artificial intelligence generative aihdem to teach students financial literacy, improve their academic outcomes through our AI tutor platform. And we also have a parent platform or a delta public platform that utilizes notification technology to support persons in their investment journey. And we began during the COVID pandemic. The Ministry of Education put out a request for digital initiatives that could engage students while they were at home. We know gamification is a huge thing, walking to any parent's house, Roblox. The children love to play in such a complex game. So we utilize that same principle of gamification learning and combine it with artificial intelligence as a tutor, as a guide to support these students. Because we know financial literacy is not something that's taught in schools generally. So we had to put in like a navigator, like Waze, it's called Mister Rabbit or Isabella, our AI tutor that supports students on the learning journey on our digital platform and web based platform. So each students get $25,000 virtual money and they can now invest that money, build portfolios on the us stock exchange, the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange, the Guyana Stock Exchange, the Barbados Stock Exchange and Jamaica. So it facilitates Caricom capital markets awareness and education. And this platform is actually approved by the ministries of Education in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and in Barbados as well. So it's a ministry support initiative and we have aligned it with the National Curriculum framework and also the C SEC and Cape syllabus. So it's also a learning tool for the academics as well.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: This is rather progressive stuff we're talking about here. And taking students into a realm that in other parts of the world is like walking. They're already there in this kind of sadly playing catch up all the time. When it comes to many of these things. I lament all the time that we don't teach our children financial literacy. They have to figure that out on their own. You could be as qualified as ever when you reach out there and you realize, well, this is what reality is like. It's sometimes difficult for some people. It can be challenging, it could be to the point where some people just can't cope with it and they find themselves in some financial situations that they can't find a way out. And so it's a step in the right direction. That's definitely one of the benefits of what you're talking about. But it sounds complicated. Is it?
[00:03:58] Speaker D: It's not complicated at all. The students find the platform very easy to navigate. They use much more complex games. As Sharia mentioned, Roblox is much more complex of a platform. So they find our platforms very easy to use. What is complex to them is the financial literacy part of it. That is what they are learning on the platform. So we have the platform build like a game. So for them it is all about learning, discovering. We have all resources built into the platform, so it's not very difficult for them to learn. It's really like a virtual world that they are now immersed into and satisfy.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: Build on top of what Chloe said. So Chloe would have actually spearheaded an initiative where we went into Tigo Martin north secondary, tranquility secondary, sponsored by Anson McCallan and Sauer North Secondary, which we wisdom have adopted, and Maribela south secondary, which Paria has adopted. And we were able to penetrate and infiltrate these schools with our technology. And we had those students showing up at our. We have a flagship award ceremony after and we take the top 150 students and we have students from Fatima College, from St. Joseph Convent, St. Joseph, and we have students from Pleasantville secondary. And each of those, Laramie Larumen secondary, had ten students come in that top 150. So while we might think it's complex, we have students from Ghana, 2122 answer McCall was our first regional cross border sponsor. And these students know no prior knowledge of investment, but they were able to take our platform, understand it, and we go, we follow. The Guyana Ministry of Education actually said, here's what this needs to align with our academic year. We started twice a year each cycle. They were like, no, no, no. We want you all to have this three times a year in line with our academic cycle, because these students need to have this as a part of their curriculum. So Chloe would have gone into these schools and have weekly sessions with these students, and now these students are able to run with the platform on their own, so much so that tranquil actually had twice as much streets as bishops east, for example, as Bishops Anstey High School. So we saw that these students are willing to put in the work to understand and to break down the complexity of the platform. They may not have been able to grow their portfolios as values as much as their counterparts, but they were putting in the effort and time with the consistency of us also nurturing them to break down the complexity of it.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: You're speaking their language at that age. They are immersed and surrounded by technology. It's their life. Everything they do, they're on the device, they're on the laptop. They're somewhere on the. That's. That's the. That's how they. They communicate.
And it's. It's. It's a reality check of where the world is, because I am. I do this Roblox thing. I was.
Yes, my child also was a Roblox fanatic. And when I sat and look at. Because you're curious, you know, and I looked at some of the things she was able to do when it comes to architecture and you're building a home. And I said to her, these things are teaching you life skills that you can turn into a job. Because I looked at a home that she created. I ain't gonna lie to you.
It was fascinating that a child at that age could design a home and the outside, and it just took me away. But it also highlighted to me the gap as to where we are and where we need to be, because I don't know if the world of work incorporates that level here at home or maybe abroad, but if here at home, we have the opportunities for those kinds of skills to be identified and exemplified and nurtured and given the opportunity to grow, what you all are doing here is placing our children on an even platform across the world.
[00:08:20] Speaker C: And, you know, funny, Sarah and I had a conversation recently, and she said, you know, answer McCall believes in this initiative so much because we are basically nurturing the next generation for their future, for the world of work. So, yes, it's not happening at home, and maybe not at the national level, but corporate entities like anselmical seeing the value in preparing students. A lot of our corporate entities want to offer Internet because once you teach these students these skills, because you're learning critical thinking, you're learning risk management, you're learning financial issues, you learn in trading, you can now transfer that skills into any business. Would love to have a team that is investment savvy because that means wealth is being generated and that.
[00:09:09] Speaker B: Go ahead to add to that. I think one of the things that answer McCall was most impressed with with his program is, and we often, you know, we often say, look, we can't fight crime in Trinidad and Tobago, you know, directly. We're not on the streets fighting crime. What we can do is we can enable and empower our next generation to, you know, be more financially savvy, learning how to save and invest, whether they want to enter the working world or they want to start their own business. Remember, this platform right now is accessible to all of the secondary school children in the countries that sharia would have mentioned. These children, you know, in a few years time are going to be thinking about starting their own business. They're going to be thinking about starting their first job. And so it's really important to us that we provide them with the tools, the understanding and the skills needed to be able to enter that and that flow, you know, and flow and build and develop. Because ultimately what you're doing is you're creating a more stable and financial, economically viable region for years to come. And I think that's where corporate sponsors need to really look at this platform. Yes, it's a cool, innovative, you know, when you hear things like digitization and, and AI and all these, you know, these hot words. But what we're really doing here, I believe is, you know, and I would even call it a rally call to say, you know, more corporate sponsors need to come on board to, you know, to support this initiative because, you know, no one sponsor is going to be able to sponsor every child in Trinidad Tobago or Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, across the region.
But if we all come together and we support this, you know, wisdom, CRM and the rollout of this platform, what we're really doing is investing in a more sustainable future for our region and providing a more economically stable environment. And I think that is the critical piece in all of this as well.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: It's about shaping perspective as well because I've had experience in some financial institutions and one of the things you notice is that it's very difficult to change people's perspective about what money is and I how you can use it. It's tough because most times you're trying to get people to do something that's better for them or that will be better for them. But there is a pushback because we're traditional. And, I mean, we see that tradition in so many different things. Our pensioners, some of them don't want a bank account. They want this check in their hand. And the changeover of the mattress, the changeover of the $100 bill in December of 2019 highlighted to us how many people don't trust.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: That's correct.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: These institutions. And you had millions of dollars that were outside of the banking system. And we saw it. It's a reality. And we've spoken to a number of people about a cashless society and moving towards those things which are already implemented in other parts of the world. And we're still trying to catch up here. So this initiative I see as having a profound impact on the perspective of that at least one generation is going to have on how they can use money.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:12:10] Speaker C: A really good point. I want to touch on the Heritage and stabilization fund.
That fund is our sovereign wealth fund. That's our next generation, the heritage side of it. So you spoke about grandparents collecting their pensions.
We, our heritage and stabilization fund invests heavily in equities, so it makes sense to teach our population about it. So what we've realized, the first place winner, Johann Seoktobu, we brought him from Guyana. That's an auntie McCall sponsored student. And he said on stage, you know, he had to teach his parents. Parents have been demanding from us, okay, our children know it, but we need to also learn it to be able to keep a pace with them because we need to now stop fearing this thing and put money into the real market. So what we have done, because you spoke about the trust and transparency, and I'm going to use Sarah as an example. Sarah works for the antimacal group. She has confidence in the entity that she works in. She sees where the entity is going and she purchases, she decides, I'm going to purchase stocks, more stocks in Ansimacal. It's a publicly listed company. As an executive, she has to declare that to the securities and Exchange Commission. So what we would have done is built on top of OpenAI's infrastructure, which we know is the company that owns chat, GPT. We would have built our tech stack on top, their infrastructure, to now give parents a tool that they can now use to understand. So when the student, when their child is speaking to them, they now understand, and they could take their money and call up their brokers, go to Anselmirch and bank and say, hey, I would like to start an investment. And that's where we're going to see the real transformational change once you get that buyer behavior. But in order to get there, parents need a simple tool that they can now use where they can get that inside information. They can even get trades from these students because we have a lot of top performers in our platform. Ala Isami from Tobago who just won. He has been in our platform since cycle two. We are now on cycle seven.
And he has echoed that. He wants to be a stockbroker. I have had CEO's of investment houses saying hey, there are three students. They always call when I see them what they up to, what they doing. They finish right CXe yet they did cape we want to offer them internships.
So now we're seeing that transfer of knowledge. But we want to take it a step further because in order to really bring it into, as you talk about cashless society, the change in over, to actually have that behavior, we need to get the parents and the grandparents who have the actual money to put skin in the game. But we need to give them a tool to be able to do so. We need to make it seamless for them. They just need to pick up their phone and call their broker and say, hey, I just see Mark Zuckerberg who's the owner of Facebook Metal. He just buy 100 shares in Facebook. He must know something. And we have actually test this in the real market. We have, we have taken, we have taken our capital and put it into to see if this thing works. And we are amazed every single time.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: One of the things that you can't get away from is that there are more and more non traditional ways of being successful these in days gone by you had to become a doctor or a lawyer. And if you didn't become a doctor or a lawyer, well, you know, you were doomed to be ostracized from society and you'd never make anything. And now you have people, young people who are earning sums of money that you bat more than just an eyelash to because it's significant. And they don't have traditional jobs. They've taken advantage of social media and they've taken advantage of the Internet to earn and dangers earning a little bit.
Millionaires. We're talking about here people who are in their twenties, teenagers and all of these kinds of things because they've identified that these opportunities existed.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: That's right. So what are these kids doing with their money?
[00:16:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And the world now is vastly different from what it was in years going by. And this, this financial literacy that we're talking, because that's basically what you're talking about here, financial literacy. How do you use your dollars? Your dollars is not something to put on in an account somewhere and hope and pray that by the time you're ready to retire, you have enough money. It's about working the money up, about finding the right opportunities. And that, as I said, we earlier on, we don't teach people, but you all are on a trajectory to change that. What exactly are you teaching children?
[00:16:50] Speaker D: So we are focusing on budgeting, investing and saving. So we teach them the basics of the financial literacy concepts so they understand. Okay, now, in my portfolio I have us $25,000. How am I going to budget this? What am I going to buy? What kind of companies am I going to invest in? And we teach them terms like diversification. You know, you can't put all your eggs in one basket. You need to buy from different industries. So they're learning about the financial literacy. They're learning about companies that shape their society, not just in Trinidad and Tobago, but also in the region. They're learning about stock markets. A lot of them don't know what a stock is, what is a stock market, what is a security. They don't even understand basic concepts such as credit, loans, mortgages. So from starting at an early age, we are really introducing them to this world where they could learn all of this. And then now they can start to dream bigger. And that's what we want. We want to open them to a whole new world that, as you mentioned globally, they're already there. But we don't want our children to be behind. So it's not only about the financial literacy aspect of it, but also about the AI that they can use this and they can also look at careers in these areas. So it's not, as you said, just the lawyers and the doctors, but they're seeing, okay, well, I can be a stockbroker. I can be an investment banker. I can work in AI, I can work in technology. Their minds are now opened. And that is what is going to. To make their next generation better for, as Sierra said, for the entire region. The entire capital market will get developed, and that's what we want.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: I had the opportunity to speak at a career day for a school earlier this year. And it's always interesting when you go to these events. And I like to listen to the young people to find out where they are in their minds. During the presentation, I questioned a couple because I spoke to a few of them before, and there was one young lady I asked her, said, well, who wants to be successful? Everybody put up their hand. What does it mean to be successful? Nobody knows because it's different for everyone. Success is a relative thing, because what might make you successful in your mind might be insufficient. You may want more. And that's just the way that it is. So questioning the young lady, I said, well, okay, well, what does success mean to you? And she said, making mean money. So I set, this is the exact words, so I am set for life. So I said, all right, what does quantify mean money for me. What does that mean? She couldn't say. I said, okay, well, all right, fine. Maybe we'll figure it out. Going on the road, what kind of profession will allow you to make that mean money that you think you need? She couldn't answer either.
Because young people are given a false sense of reality.
They're given this impression that once you come out of school, don't worry yourself, you got big work, you make real money for doing very little, and you're set for life. And they come out and realize that what they were sold is an elusive dream. And there's nothing, nowhere close to reality. But programs like these that expose them to wealth generating concepts can change that if they understand how to do it and that it's there.
I'm familiar with some of the reading the books and the videos and everything else of one of the financial gurus that's well respected in the world. That's Robert T. Kiyosaki.
Everybody who speaks of investment knows of him and they know of his lessons and everything else. And his concept is that you have to keep learning, you have to keep updating if you want to be successful. It's a non ending process.
These students here are exposed to.
I don't want to say monopoly money, but it's money that's not real. But the concept of using it is real. How many of them have gone on, if that's the case, to actually using.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: Real money, the accounts. So, excellent point.
[00:21:13] Speaker A: Segue.
[00:21:16] Speaker C: So, two things. Benjamin Franklin, president of the United States, he says, our former president, he said, education pays the best dividends. Then our doctor, the honourable Dolly, she said, education is good business. So you are right. Education is a big part of the equation. Additionally, our cycle six winners, they took their money because we give them real. When you play the game, you win real money. And they took their real cash prizes. We had three students from Fatima College wipe the competition last time. I'm happy Tobago took it this time. But they opened up brokerage accounts, local brokerage accounts as we gave them TT dollars. And they were able to now purchase stocks in real listed companies on the Trinada Tobago Stock exchange. Many of them asked us how can we start doing this internationally?
There are brokerage firms locally that allow you to open up international brokerage accounts. But the focus is on Caricom capital market education, awareness. Because we need to build up the businesses that shape our society. Yes, trading on the US and stuff. That's what the excitement is. That's what the generational wealth comes in. Yes, we know and we earn the hard currency. But our homegrown businesses as well require that investment. And that's what we are teaching the students as well. So that's why we give them the TT dollars in Guyana too. The prize money is guyanese dollars. Go put the money in your domestic stock exchange. There's talks about a regional stock exchange. The Caricom secretary at the last 33 years have been speaking about that. 11% of our GDP, our gross domestic product in the Caribbean is financial services.
So if that is the second largest contributor to our GDP, we need to enable that. We need to continue to foster that because it's a large part of how we generate revenue in the Caribbean. So we are pushing for our students and their parents teachers to open up brokerage accounts. Put the skills that you're learning in the game into the real market. We don't need to convince you that it's real because we see it all the time. Elon Muswell, brunette Arno. Everybody listed companies and you see the ownership, a lot of the top names.
So if the wealthy is doing it, why aren't we doing it ourselves?
[00:24:01] Speaker A: Yeah, and there is of course the truck, the trust element that will come in there. We spoke about it, about the people not necessarily having 100% fear that this thing legit. You know, we always hear about some scheme somewhere, somehow. And unfortunately the bad stories are the ones that get the most airplane.
[00:24:21] Speaker C: Well, do you believe anselmical is legit? Do you believe Republic bank is legit? Do you believe Angus Stura?
[00:24:27] Speaker A: As much as. As much as that may seem to be obvious, the reality is that for many people it isn't.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: The point I was actually really impressed with, with this platform, with wisdom. CRM in general is their focus on things like data protection and cyber security. Because of course you're talking about using an online platform and entering a child's information or parents information on this digital platform. I think one of the things that was quite reassuring, especially as a court corporate sponsor, was their focus on data protection and cybersecurity. Because, of course, we know that is a big, big issue worldwide with any sort of digital platform and program.
And I don't know if the team want to expand on that a little bit to reassure the public that their data and their information is safe. But it's certainly something that I know would be important to a lot of people. Because the minute you have an app on online platform and you have to enter your personal information, you know, to be able to facilitate the learning and the training and all of those great things and the gamification parts of it, you would want to, I'm sure their parents would want to know that not only their data was safe, but their child is safe in using this online platform.
[00:25:37] Speaker C: So we actually just won a shaping the future of innovation grant from IDB careeri, the European Union and IDB labs. And we were able to take that grant funding and invest heavily in our cybersecurity security. So we're GDPR compliant. We have, we test and backup our data every ten minutes. So it is up to date reliable. We, we don't play when it comes because of course, this is real information. This is live stock markets powered by live stock market data. Right. So we would have taken those extra measures. We have our recapture from Google as well. You know, all these different authentications. We also allow students, they can sign into their platform, but if they don't remember their password, they can now forget password and create a new one that they can now use. So we have put in all these measures in place, these simple things that make such a big difference when it comes to data protection and cybersecurity into our platform. Additionally, because you were speaking also about trust in terms of the understanding of a scheme, a scam versus legitimacy. So that's why we partner with all the major stock exchanges in the region as well. They have access to our platform, they have a ESG portal, sponsors, our portal, where they can go in and see the data of the students by the students, by name and then by school. So that's aspect of transparency, also fairness in the competition, so that we are not just making up a winner, we're not just choosing. No, they can actually see our caribbean ranking leader board. So Ministry of education has login, the stock exchanges have logins, the sponsors have logins, schools, the schools have logins, the principals. So we have made it so fair and transparent that we won't leave any doubt in anybody's minds. But as well, in terms of the legitimacy of the business, yes, stocks are very volatile. They go up and they go down. But you have to look at the business, see where this company is going. Apple, for example, phones is one area, then cloud base is another area, then accessories, they have all these various. So if one sector is down, another one is buffering them. Ansemical. You all are in media, you all are in financial services, motors, construction, various sectors. So when one is underperforming, the other one is buffering. So that's how. Yes, there's risk involved. I'm not coming here to say, oh, yeah, investing is all safe. No, but you look at the companies and that's where the diversification also comes in. You're not going to put all your eggs in one basket. You're gonna look at it on a broad spectrum as well. This is where the education comes in so important.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: This is where I think you're also teaching the children and parents, you know, the interested parents, you know, beyond the technical skills of how to use the platform, you're actually teaching them to think strategically.
[00:28:46] Speaker A: Let's see, because the time is going to fly away from us.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: We could talk about this all the time.
[00:28:52] Speaker A: So walk me through how it actually works. How do you get the students involved and all these kinds of things? Because from what I understand, it's a specific number of students from various schools.
And I'm sure that listening in, there are people who would want to get involved. They would want their children to get involved. How does it work?
[00:29:12] Speaker D: Okay, so of course we are approved by the ministries of education throughout the islands. So once we get the approval from the ministries and we are in contact with the schools, with the principals, and we get the corporate sponsors to basically adopt a school. So d each corporate sponsor, as part of their CSR program, they will be sponsoring a number of students in a school. Once that happens, we go into the schools ourselves to do a school tour. So we have each cycle, we start with the school tours, we go into the schools, we introduce the platform, we do a demonstration to the students and we allow them to decide if they want to participate. This platform comes at no cost to the students because we believe in free and quality education for all. The sustainable, the UN sustainable development goal number four. So we don't want these students to pay for this. We want the corporate entities to sponsor and to partner and to support them. So once we go into the schools and we get the interest from the students, they are now able to register on the platform. Once that happens, they get their profile, they log in, they set up, they have their 25,000 virtual us dollars there, and then we have a start date, and then trading begins. So they have a little time, by the time they register to when the competition actually starts, to explore the platform. To get familiar with this, with that, we have aihdem on the platform, which will guide these students through, as well as lots of resources and tutorial videos and quizzes about companies. So they have so many resources available to them to start learning about everything. And then the competition starts and it runs about three months, where they now have a real life experience. And I mean real life, because these. The platform mirrors the real stock market. So it opens at the same time, it closes at the same time. If a stock goes up or down in real life, it is mirrored on the platform, so they basically get a real life experience at no risk to them. And once the competition is over, then we see who has the highest portfolios and we award those amazing students at our flagship awards ceremony.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Tell us some of the achievements that have been made. You start with 25,000 us. Where have some of them ended up?
[00:31:35] Speaker B: You'd be shocked. Yes, I was shocked.
[00:31:38] Speaker C: So our last winner, he was at, like 267,000 from bishops, to be correct. So from 25,000 to 267,000 us. Initially, we started, we're on $100,000 and the CFA society and some of our corporate guys were like, guys, 100,000 us. That's because they were going to, like a million and a billion. They're like, here, what? Less. We were like, here, what? To make it more realistic, let's lessen the amount. So we made it a bit harder for the students as well. We even cut down on the number of times they can trade a day, because each one going at it for hours on end, they were traded. So we said, all right, you could only do ten trades a day. And then we even further drill it down to one company. So if you buy Apple once, you can't buy Apple. Go and do research and find the next company. And these students were still able to ten x their portfolios in some instances. Students in Guyana, they only competed two cycles from January, and they're already in the top ten.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah, the guy. And these students are really.
[00:32:42] Speaker A: When you look at some of the performances from CXC and you see someone that had 20 something subjects and so.
[00:32:53] Speaker C: You know, all this thing shows, they.
[00:32:55] Speaker A: Get ones and all. It's like walking in the park for them. You can tell that there is a high level of intelligence and what you're talking about here requires some critical thinking to understand what's going on.
[00:33:06] Speaker D: And it's not only just book smarts like this platform allows students who may not be good at maths or may not be good at English or whatever subject in school to realize there is a path for me where society tells them, well, okay, if you're not book smart and you're not passing your exams, you're not going to be good for anything. This shows them that yes, there are other things that they can do that can make them successful. So it really opens up their mind. And for us, educating the entire population from primary school streets up to the adults with our parent company, stock trader elites, this is how we want to make a difference in our society.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: As we end our show here this morning, let's say a word to the people, the corporate sponsorship, the people who may be listening and might be interested in being a part, getting more involved. How do they do that?
[00:33:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:34:00] Speaker C: So for the listed companies on the stock exchanges, that's our appeal to you all, is to adopt a school. Because this benefits all of us, the entire ecosystem for the students and the parents. We're starting in September, cycle eight, we'll be coming to a school near you and in Guyana and in Barbados through answer McCall being our inter regional cross border sponsor. So we would just like to leave with the general public at large that financial literacy is the most important thing that we can learn in this current climate. And it's everybody's business. So look out for us. Cycle eight is coming up. We can go to our website, wisdom CRM, virtual stock marketgame.com, dot stocktraderalert.com, and we also have our wisdom CRM Aituta platform, wisdom CRM.com. and you can find us on all social medias, LinkedIn, Instagram, you know we're there. Yeah, Facebook as well.
[00:35:03] Speaker A: What does, I guess the information will be the same for schools as well if they want to be a part of it. Or do they have to go through different channels with the Ministry of Education?
[00:35:11] Speaker C: They guy, they choose our schools and we give the corporate sponsors, the entities. But if a school, schools have written to us, Barrack West Secondary, they wrote to us and we said, hey, we will make provisions with the ministry. We had a student from poverty, she just found out and she signed up on her own lone girl in ICT, right?
[00:35:29] Speaker D: And they all did fantastic.
[00:35:31] Speaker C: Correct.
[00:35:31] Speaker D: Even though it's their first time.
[00:35:32] Speaker C: Correct. So schools can reach out to us as well through our social media channels. And then we will you know, go to the ministry and lobby on their behalf. But the Ministry of education also gives us the approval as well.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: Speak just quickly because you just have a minute. Again, this student who applied on her own, let's just say there are parents who are listening and students are listening and they say, hey, listen to me, I will be a part of this thing. You know, can they do that on their own? Can parents pay or whatever fees or whatever it is, get their children enrolled, right?
[00:36:03] Speaker C: So they can go to virtual stockmarketgame.com. it's an app and it's a web based platform. And when we open up in September, they can sign up their child or their student. You know, we will try our best as well to get the corporate entities involved, the listed companies, to adopt their schools. If a parent is working as a corporate entity and they say, hey, we would like our organization to partake, they can also reach out to us in that regard as well. And we will lobby with the ministry, as I mentioned, get that approval to go into these schools because, you know, you can't just go into a secondary school. We have to get that ministry approval. So that's why they need to come to us beforehand, before time. And we have to also let the ministry know who the corporate entities are because the corporate entities come into the school with us. So that if they, if that's the case, they have to reach out to us early because we already get administrative.
[00:36:55] Speaker A: Approval from now this, we're going to have to drop the curtains. We are out of time. But there's so much more that we can discuss about this. I see the potential and I understand the value definitely of what this brings to our younger people, the next generation, the future leaders of this country, putting them in a place that can see them achieve a potential probably they don't even realize they can achieve at this point in time. I want to thank all of you for being here this morning. It was a most interesting discussion. The best insight, instant feedback, accountability, the all new talk radio Freedom 106.5.
