With winners taking home cash rewards along with certificates, MMA also noted that the selected comics may be published or featured in national campaigns, digital platforms, or financial literacy materials with full credit to the authors.
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The Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) has opened up applications to partake in the Global Money Week Comic Competition.
This comic competition invites participants to explore financial literacy through creative visual communication, where they will translate financial literacy principles into visual narratives, enhancing their own understanding, and creating educational materials that resonate with their peers and the future generation.
Visual storytelling is a powerful way to communicate complex ideas and thoughts in memorable ways. Using illustrations and dialogue, along with narratives, comics can simplify financial concepts and make them engaging and relatable for younger audiences. By creating comics about money, youth develop critical thinking skills while becoming an inspiration to other peers, to make better-informed financial decisions.
With this announcement, MMA revealed the themes for the competition as well, which includes:
The participants' comics are expected to demonstrate clear financial literacy concepts, use of visual storytelling and convey meaningful messages about financial literacy's role in everyday life.
The comic competition has only been opened for primary school students from grades five through seven. With winners taking home cash rewards along with certificates, MMA also noted that the selected comics may be published or featured in national campaigns, digital platforms, or financial literacy materials with full credit to the authors.
All submissions with participants' ID card copies must be submitted via email to [email protected] by 15:00 hrs. on 22nd March 2026.
