MetLife Emeklilik ve Hayat has so far conducted a number of successful projects in cooperation with MetLife Foundation and Junior Achievement Turkey. The company already completed the 2019 operations of “Smart Money Management” project for primary school students and “This is My Job” project for secondary school students. With these projects, MetLife focuses on improving the entrepreneurship and financial literacy of children and young people. On the other hand, fourth organization of the ‘Meet Up’ project, which continues for three years within the scope of ‘MetLife Life Changer’ project, was completed in the beginning of May 2019. Within the scope of Meet Up, MetLife provides mentorship to high-school students for their career planning.

Since 2013, MetLife Turkey and Junior Achievement Turkey have been successfully carrying out the “MetLife Life Changer Project” which offers applied programs in individual finance, career development and entrepreneurship for high-school students in Turkey. Last year, scope of these training programs were extended to include primary and secondary school students. In this respect, volunteers from MetLife Turkey received stringent trainings from the expert trainers of Junior Achievement Turkey for the “Smart Money Management” and “This is My Job” programs. The project has so far reached 1070 students, and created awareness for financial literacy and career development through entertaining activities.
“Smart Money Management” program aims to teach students tips about consumption, spending and saving habits which they can easily adopt and implement in their daily lives. Within the scope of ‘This is My Job’ program, young people between 13 to 15 years old met with entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship, while gaining stronger concentration for their reading and writing activities in social studies classes.

Fourth “Meet Up” project, which is conducted in cooperation with Junior Achievement Turkey with the aim of supporting high-school students in career planning, was organized in the first week of May 2019. 100 students from 10 high-schools who are at the earliest stages of their career planning processes were mentored by MetLife volunteers. In this respect, MetLife employees shared their experiences that can help students shape their future plans.

About MetLife Life Changer Project
Supported by the MetLife Foundation, MetLife Life Changer project brings together MetLife volunteers with children and young people through Junior Achievement’s financial literacy, preparation for business life and entrepreneurship programs. The project was designed on the idea that volunteers should share their know-how and experiences with the students. “Life Changer” activities in Turkey consist of Junior Achievement Programs called “Meet Up”, “Social Innovation Camp”, and “Company Program”.