June 18, 2008 - 10:23am — YV_Jen
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
For those of you who are interested in poverty issues, I thought you'd be interested in a newly launched website to teach kids about microfinance.
Through the newly launched www.OneHen.org website, youth have the opportunity to help change the world through microfinance. Launched with school children at City Year headquarters in Boston, and developed by Sapient Interactive and Bain & Company’s CommunityWorks program as a pro-bono project, www.OneHen.org is designed to educate children and families about the benefits of microfinance.
Through www.OneHen.org children interact one-on-one in a virtual village with microfinance. The site features interactive games where children can earn beads and then “loan” them to small businesses in the virtual marketplace, allowing them to see firsthand the power one small action can make in the lives of many. For each bead loaned, the site makes a donation to actual poor entrepreneurs through Opportunity International, a global microfinance organization.
We invited you and your children to visit the One Hen website – a colorful and interactive resource for children, parents, teachers…everyone!