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Financial Education Curriculum for an Arabic Audience

Discussion of Michigan State University Extension’s experience with translating DollarWorksII into Arabic for use by community agencies. Topics include money decisions, budgeting, income/savings, credit, insurance, and consumer fraud.

Presented by Khurram Imam.Khurram holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Psychology and is returning to graduate school in August 2018 to pursue Economics. Khurram has been with Michigan State University Extension for nearly 5 years, serving as an Instructor for the Financial and Homeownership Education team, an Innovation Counselor for the Product Center, and a planning member of the Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities program. Based in Detroit Metro/Ann Arbor area, Khurram facilitates classes and counseling in financial education, homeownership, entrepreneurship, and value-added agriculture business production.

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This technology is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension (funding opportunity no. USDA-NIFA-OP-010186), grant no. 2023-41595-41325 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Extension Foundation. For more information, please visit extension.org. You can view the terms of useat extension.org/terms.

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