Education changes everything.
Just outside of my office at BancoFie is a poster that caught my eye on my first day of work as a Vittana Fellow. It says:“La Paz no es un obyecto encontrado por casualidad. Es el producto de la igualidad entre los hombres.” – -“Peace is not an object found [...]
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“What happens to Africa matters to the world.” – Patrick Awuah As a fellow in Ghana doing market research on the potential for an education loan I, along with [...]
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We’re floored on a daily basis by students who have struggled against all odds to finish their education, lenders who time and again come back to change yet another person’s life, and Fellows who dedicate a portion of their own lives to bringing microloans to more students in developing countries. [...]
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As I sit here on the day before Thanksgiving, what comes to mind is the over 250 students on Vittana right now who are poised to transform their lives by continuing their education. Whether it’s Omar Ahmad‘s desire to become a civil engineer in Jordan or Lidia Severina Aban‘s goal [...]
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I must admit I knew very little about the Philippines before I arrived. What I did know was that it’s an archipelago in South East Asia and the only Christian nation in Asia. I knew basically nothing about what the people, politics, economy or food was like. It was a [...]
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Ithaca is a small town, home to around 30,000 people and Cornell University- which is situated on a hill above Cayuga Lake in Central New York. I spent the past four years studying Economics, Philosophy, and Psychology in this frigid island of academia far away from my home in sunny [...]
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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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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQFuOkoLZQ&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] More than one in ten African girls drop out of school. Why? Tampons. As a woman, this infuriates me. Around the world, girls are still pulled out of school earlier than boys, are denied a family voice, and live with the daily risk of emotional and physical abuse. Even [...]
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What comes to mind when you hear the name Jordan? While Americans might reminisce about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, those outside the U.S. will think of a small country in the Middle East near nestled between Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the West Bank. Steeped in thousands of [...]
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The first thing I noticed when I flew into the El Alto International Airport (LPB) is that La Paz is really high up. At 13,325 feet, LPB is one of the highest airports in the world, and the direct flight from Miami (8 feet above sea level) gave me no [...]
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