Abu Dhabi Pension Authority teaches young people the importance of saving with a "comic story"

The Abu Dhabi Pension Fund (ADPF) has released a short and illustrated children's story in conjunction with Emirati Children's Day, to educate young people aged 6 to 16 years about the importance of the concepts of savings and retirement, and to shed light on the role of the Fund and the retirement system in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, within the framework of the Fund's societal role and its awareness plan for all segments of society.

The story, titled "Khalid Saves for the Future", addresses the Fund's role as a national institution that works to protect the rights of citizens and their families over successive generations, and the services provided by the Fund to the Emirati community and families, in addition to explaining the idea of retirement in a simplified and interesting way, based on expressive graphics and colors inspired by the Fund's visual identity and narrative in an interesting artistic template, in which the elements of simplicity and ease of language blended to simplify the concept and purpose of retirement.

The story, which consists of 10 pages, also sheds light on the role played by the Fund in the lives of citizens, after the end of their services in the workplace, through a situation between the child Khaled (the protagonist of the story), who is 6 years old, and his grandfather, a retired teacher, where the events begin when the grandfather and grandson have a dialogue about the nature of the grandfather's job, as Khaled asked him a question about the reason that made him stop working and what is the source of the money he buys him with. The grandfather answers him that he is retired, and then explains to him in a simplified way the meaning of the word retired, and how it means the stage of rest after serving the country for a long time, and the grandfather explains to him through simplified words the idea of monthly contributions that he used to pay to the fund throughout his years of service, which he described as a period of "saving" and therefore the fund pays him the pension at the end of his service.

The Fund stressed its keenness to spread awareness of the role of the Fund and the retirement system in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi among various segments of society in a variety of innovative ways, pointing out that the percentage of beneficiaries of deceased retirees registered with the Fund in the age group from 6 to 16 years (the target group of the awareness story) is 11% of the total beneficiaries of the deceased retirees registered with the Fund, which number 9996 beneficiaries.