Education changes everything.
It’s Friday again! Where does the week go? This week, we funded 5 students. We’re adding more students to the site over the next few days, so we hope to fund even more through the end of August. On Tuesday, we were inspired by a visit from President Obama literally [...]
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“You’re an American student, you’ve already finished college and your government will help you pay for your degree to be a lawyer – so why do you care so much about helping girls in Peru go to college?” This was the question 21-year-old Vittana student Rosa Maria Urbano posed at [...]
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At age 15, Mercy Marilu, known by friends as a bookworm, planned to attend college and dreamed one day of teaching as a professor. But at 18, she was forced to put her dreams on hold for something far less glamorous— selling roast chicken on a dusty street corner in [...]
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When I asked 18-year-old Vittana student Jeffery Nuñez for his secret recipe for rocoto relleno, my favorite signature Peruvian dish, he agreed but with one condition: first, I had to join him and his family for a home-cooked traditional lunch. Happy to escape for an elongated lunch break, I accepted [...]
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Despite having 308 other clients, Ayme Aguilar Alvarez can remember every last detail about Vittana student Beder Solano without having to reference his loan file. Ayme, a loan officer for Vittana’s microfinance partner here in Peru, can recall Beder’s loan terms, as well as his specialization in school, extra-curricular activities, [...]
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxoJ88WPnPU[/youtube] Eduardo Castro Quiroz and his mother Martha live in a tiny, crumbling store at the end of a dusty street in El Progreso Carabayllo, a neighborhood in the cono norte area of Lima. Overflowing with dilapidated shanty homes and teeming with stray dogs, Eduardo’s street is a world apart [...]
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