This summer and early autumn, thousands of Ukrainian children are not only focusing on sports but also on their first financial lessons. The All-Ukrainian Festival JuniorS Games 2026, which is uniting schoolchildren across the country for the second year, this season focuses not only on physical activity but also on skills that may be needed in adult life.

The general partners of the project are PrivatBank and Mastercard, who brought their own financial literacy program for children and teenagers to the festival. The idea is simple: to talk about money not through textbooks, but through play, experience, and children's dreams.

A special area operates at the festivals, where young participants can learn about savings and try to formulate their first financial goal. Together with their parents, children take part in open meetings about financial habits, accumulation, and responsible attitude towards money. Here, they can also get their first savings tracker, issue a Junior Card, and get acquainted with digital tools that help set aside funds for dreams.

A separate tradition of the festival is the children's drawing competition for the Junior Card design. The best works will be featured in Privat24 and will become the design of digital cards for other users.

The JuniorS Games season has already passed the halfway mark. Behind us are festivals in Bucha, Lutsk, Poltava, and Khmelnytskyi, which were visited by over 11,000 children and parents in total.

Four more cities are ahead:

• Chernivtsi — August 22–23;
• Vinnytsia — September 5–6;
• Cherkasy — September 12–13;
• Ternopil — September 26–27.