Dare to Dream

A free online course, offered in English, accessible through a basic smartphone to help migrant domestic workers manage their money well, improve their mental wellness and prepare for the future. Sign up below!

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Course curriculum

1. Introduction to our partners
2. Welcome!
3. How this course works
4. Navigate the classroom
1. A few words about our survey
2. Start of course survey
3. Dare to Dream Coursebook
1. Story - Maya, the Superwoman
2. Migrant Domestic Workers are superwomen
3. Self-coaching - Your life
4. Challenge - Boost your life with simple rituals
5. Know your rights, responsibilities and where to get support
6. In Hong Kong - Know your rights, responsibilities and where to get support
7. In Singapore - Know your rights, responsibilities and where to get support
8. Story - Grandma Rose
9. Your mindset is important
10. About the quizzes in the course
11. Quiz
12. Self-coaching - What have you become better at?
13. Challenge - Make your dream board
1. Story- Rising from debt to dreams: Sarah's journey to financial freedom
2. The 3 Golden-S of money management
3. Quiz 1
4. Percentages made easy
5. Quiz 2
6. Save before spending
7. Quiz 3
8. Challenge- Your plan to save more
9. Open a bank account
10. Start tracking your expenses
11. Quiz 4
12. Other techniques to track your expenses
13. Quiz 5
1. Hope vs Plan: Who finds the Eiffel Tower?
2. Make a simple life plan
3. Quiz 1
4. Challenge - Draw a mind map
5. Story - Scaling Dreams: Mona's Journey from Stairs to Summit
6. Self-coaching - WOOP your life
7. Quiz 2
8. Self-coaching - Boost your motivation
9. Professionally manage your life
10. Quiz 3
1. Story - Dream Big, Budget Smart!
2. Start budgeting
3. Your first monthly budget
4. Quiz 1
5. Stick to your budget
6. Quiz 2
7. Repeat with your family's budget
8. Your complete budget
9. Challenge - Help Angela and Siti make their budgets- Part 1
10. Help Angela and Siti make their budgets - Part 1 - Quiz
11. Help Angela and Siti make their budgets - Part 2
12. Help Angela and Siti make their budgets - Part 2 - Quiz
13. Help Angela and Siti make their budgets - Part 3
14. Help Angela and Siti make their budgets - Part 3 - Quiz
15. Self-coaching - Make your budget
16. Week 1 assessment quiz
1. Story - From Hurt to Harmony- The Story of Jocelyn and her Teenage Daughter
2. Good communication matters
3. Quiz 1
4. The DESC communication technique
5. The 3P's to express your opinion with confidence
6. Quiz 2
7. Challenge - Become a DESC Master
8. Self-coaching - Everything is Figureoutable
1. Story - Maria's Costly Lesson: The Truth Behind Easy Loans
2. Loans cost money
3. Falling into a vicious debt cycle
4. Understand loan terms
5. Quiz 1
6. Stop taking loans
7. Quiz 2
8. Story - A Mother's Desperate Choice: How Marisol Saved her Daughter without Drowning in Debt
9. What to do if a loan is unavoidable
10. Know regulations and compare loan terms
11. Story - From Debt to Success: Mena's Inspiring Story of Reclaiming her Life
12. Become debt-free
13. Quiz 3
14. Challenge - Test your knowledge on loans
15. Challenge - Test your knowledge on loans - Quiz
1. Story - The Importance of Self-care: The Cobbler's Tale
2. Prioritise your health and your mental health
3. Quiz 1
4. Discover self-care practices - healthy habits
5. Quiz 2
6. Discover self-care practices - me time
7. Challenge - WOOP for a happier and healthier life
8. Week 2 assessment quiz
1. Story - The Red Dress Dilemma: Choosing Dreams over Desires
2. Needs and Wants
3. Quiz 1
4. Story - Rea and the Changing Whispers of the Community
5. Story - Letting Others Grow their Wings: The Little boy and the Butterfly
6. Prepare for the future with your family
7. Quiz 2
8. Understand exchange rates and fees
9. Quiz 3
10. Recap on how to save more
11. Challenge - Estimate your long term financial goals
1. Story - Love and Deception: Marites' Tale of Betrayal and Resilience
2. Detect Scams
3. Protect yourself from scams
4. Challenge - Find the scam
5. Challenge - Find the scam - Quiz
6. Protect yourself from multi-level marketing
7. Quiz
1. Story - Ella's First Step to Investing
2. What are investments and why invest?
3. Quiz 1
4. Story - Maribel Avoids Bad Investments
5. How to compare investments
6. Quiz 2
7. Story - Lina and the 5 Golden Rules of Investments
8. The 5 Golden Rules of investment
9. Self-coaching - Check your own investments
10. Week 3 assessment quiz
1. Story - The Jar of Stones
2. Make it Happen
3. End of course assessment quiz
4. About our end of course survey
5. End of course survey
6. Like us and leave us a review on Facebook!
7. Have you reviewed us on Facebook?
8. Share about us with your friends!
9. What's next for you?
10. Have you joined our Uplifters Community WhatsApp group?
11. Thank you to our partners

About this course

Free
129 lessons

Dare to Dream is an Uplifters course within the Brighter Financial Futures programme – a regional initiative developed by Aflatoun and funded by Sun Life. Uplifters serves as the local implementation partner in Hong Kong and Singapore and empowers migrant domestic workers to build sustainable financial futures through free online courses and community support.

Dare to Dream

Course curriculum

Introduction

Before you get started

Module 1- Shape and uplift your life

Module 2- Understand the basics of money management

Module 3- Plan to make your dreams come true

Module 4- Learn to budget

Module 5- Communicate well

Module 6- Say no to debt

Module 7- Practice self care

Module 8- Save More

Module 9- Avoid Scams

Module 10- Invest Wisely

Conclusion- Make it happen

About this course