Education changes everything.
Around the Vittana offices, we talk a lot about sustainability, return on investment and (everyone’s favorite word) “leverage”. Buzz words aside, what we’re really about is delivering student loans as efficiently as we can to as many young people as possible. Some organizations talk about providing a 2:1 leverage on [...]
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Healthcare. People from all ethnicities, ages, and economic backgrounds are talking about one of the most important subjects of the 21st century. People discuss the merits of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to United Nations Millennium Development Goals to the United States’ recently passed healthcare reform bill. We tend [...]
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In the first minute of my conversation with Maria I could sense that she had a tremendous enthusiasm for life and was focused on helping other people. Both traits will undoubtedly be advantageous when she graduates in December with a degree in nursing. Meet Maria de los Angeles Noguera from [...]
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I recently spent a few days with the wonderful and innovative staff of the Paraguayan microfinance organization Fundacion Paraguaya. Before my week in Asuncion, I knew practically nothing about this landlocked country, snuggled in between Brazil and Bolivia to the north and Argentina to the south. Here’s a quick primer [...]
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Here at Vittana, we talk a lot about the value of education. And while we may often ruminate on the intrinsic value of what we learned in college–the beauty of learning for learning’s sake–we also know know that simply having an education doesn’t let us pay our bills or (start [...]
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Gerardo and Natalia are students from Paraguay studying to become an automotive mechanic and bank teller.
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