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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The other day, I came across a what seemed like a strange clause in the policy for ASKI and Vittana’s pilot Loan for Educational Development Program (LEAP): Only third and fourth year students would qualify for a loan. I found myself wondering, what kind of impact are we making when [...]
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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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Our intrepid team of International Partnerships Managers is starting off 2011 by spending a cumulative 82 days in the field. They’ll be visiting 11 countries and meeting with more than 55 microfinance organizations, banks and universities in our quest to continue bringing student lending to the developing world. Together, they’ll [...]
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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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When most of us think about paying for a college education, a few things come to mind: It’s going to be expensive. It’s going to take sacrifice. It’s going to take hard work. According to collegeboard.com, average tuition and fees for U.S. college in the 2009-2010 academic year range from [...]
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I spent two days last week in Lima, Peru with the wonderful team at EDAPROSPO (Vittana’s first MFI partner). (Photo above is with Gustavo Chauca (Director of Education Loan Program) and David Ardela (Executive Director). EDAPROSPO has been in the microfinance business for more than 15 years and they have almost 4,000 [...]
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