Winning with ‘Good SENS’

Worthy investment: Team Filpen from SK Luagan sold tickets to their independent feature film to buy boats for their flood-prone school.

TEAM Filpen from SK Luagan who mitigated the closures at their flood-prone school in Sarawak through the sale of tickets to their independent feature film were among the budding social entrepreneurs whose talents shone at the recently concluded Good SENS programme by the Financial Industry Collective Outreach (Finco).The school in Lawas was among four “Best Overall Social Enterprises” that were crowned winners of the Finco flagship financial literacy programme on Dec 8.

In its second run, Good SENS, which used social enterprise as a vehicle to teach upper primary pupils the concepts of financial literacy in a real-world setting, featured 73 teams from 29 schools across Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Johor and Sarawak.