Inkspired Library has partnered with Arsalan Ajmal at Chottay Sikkay to launch a Financial Literacy for Kids course, built around a premise many adults only come to appreciate well into their own working lives, that skills like balancing saving, spending, sadaqah, and gifting are rarely taught early enough to actually shape lifelong habits. The course treats money management not as a narrowly materialistic subject but as a genuine life skill, one that families who have built and preserved wealth over generations have historically approached with deliberate, long-term planning rather than leaving to informal trial and error.
The course moves beyond simply teaching financial vocabulary, instead helping children understand how money actually works, how to make sound financial decisions, and how to build healthy money habits capable of lasting well into adulthood. Content spans practical territory that even many grown adults struggle to apply consistently, including the basics of investing, understanding how, where, and why to put money to work, and the distinct discipline of keeping an emergency fund entirely separate from regular savings, a distinction that often gets blurred without early, structured guidance.
Chottay Sikkay, founded by Arsalan Ajmal, has built its identity specifically around the belief that children’s entrepreneurial and financial potential has been consistently underestimated, running kid-focused business and money management programs in Karachi for several years prior to this partnership. Ajmal’s own background moving from a corporate career into founding Chottay Sikkay gives the course a founder-led credibility distinct from a generic curriculum designed without direct experience actually teaching children these concepts in practice. The partnership with Inkspired Library extends that existing track record into a new venue and audience, pairing a library setting’s naturally reflective, learning-oriented environment with Chottay Sikkay’s specific financial education content.
The course is designed for children aged nine and above and will run every Saturday and Sunday from 17 October to 22 November, with sessions held from 3:30 to 4:30 PM at Inkspired Library on Siraj Road in PECHS, Karachi. Pricing is set at Rs. 8,000 per child for the full course, and interested parents can register through this link or reach out directly via WhatsApp or direct message to the number provided on the event’s promotional materials. Structuring the course across multiple weekend sessions rather than compressing it into a single day gives children repeated exposure to concepts that genuinely benefit from reinforcement over time, rather than a single lecture-style introduction that tends to fade quickly without follow-up practice.
The initiative reflects a broader argument its organizers are making directly to parents, that financial literacy deserves the same deliberate investment of time and resources as other skills considered essential for a child’s development, rather than being treated as an optional extra to be picked up informally, if at all, later in life. Framing the course this way positions it less as a novelty summer activity and more as foundational preparation, one its organizers argue children will come to appreciate specifically once they are old enough to recognize how much smoother their own financial decisions become as a result.
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