Education changes everything.
“Problems can be opportunities when the right people come together” – Robert South August is the reason I’ll be popping a bottle of champagne on Friday, and starting off Labor Day Weekend with more reason to celebrate than just the extra day off. August blew all of my job satisfaction [...]
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“A Key” “The Greatest Thing” “The First Priority” “Opens Your Mind” “Empowerment” “Life” These are just some of the answers that students at various schools across Kigali gave to the question, “What does education mean to you?” As I spoke with students about education, I started to reflect on my [...]
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For the past four months, Vittana Fellows Patrick Huang and Luke Monroe have been hard at work in Kigali, Rwanda. Patrick came to Vittana from a career as a management consultant at IBM. Luke is an entrepreneur at heart. He started a business while getting his bachelors degree at USC. [...]
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A recent blog post by the Wall Street Journal revealed that over the past two years, Americans (individuals, not the government) have reduced their debt in every category except one, student loans. During the current economic recession, student debt increased by 25%. This is largely due to the fact that [...]
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Here is a short compilation of graduates telling how Vittana loans changed their lives. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M63TTSbeocg[/youtube]
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A few weeks ago, I mentioned a new campaign we were getting ready to launch. I’m really excited to publicly unveil our new campaign today, “What Does Education Mean to You?” Education is so personal, as it means something different to each of us. At the same time, it’s so [...]
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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” -Lucille Ball This week marked Lucille Ball’s birthday. Were she still alive, she would now be 100. I can still vividly remember watching re-runs of ‘I Love Lucy’ with my grandparents growing up, and I can’t help but laugh every time I think [...]
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Last month South Sudan celebrated its independence. After a 22-year civil war, it became the world’s newest country (and supplanted Eritrea as Africa’s youngest nation). Independence Day happened to coincide with my visit to Rwanda, a neighboring-but-not-bordering East African nation that is home to Urwego Opportunity Bank, one of Vittana’s [...]
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For me, it was never really a question of whether or not I could go to college. Sure, money has always been tight in the Foster household and finding a way to pay for college for their four sons was never easy for my parents, but it wasn’t optional either. [...]
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“Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.” – J.P Richter I used to write software for a “life goals” website. One of the company’s objectives was to leverage the convenience of technology and the peer pressure potential of social networking to help people determine their real aspirations [...]
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