Kiva Presentation at Hall High School

After substituting at Hall today, I stopped by the social studies department to see one of my old teachers. We got to talking, and when I told her Fiona and I were going to Africa she got really excited and started telling me about this new class she'll be teaching next semester on Human Rights.

Obviously, I think it's fantastic that they're addressing these kinds of topics at the high school level so I offered to help out in any way I could. I told her that if she has any ideas for a project I'd be up for it.

Well, one thing led to another and Fiona and I are going to be doing a talk at the high school on Thursday about microfinancing and our upcoming African adventure. It will be a good opportunity for us to practice talking about Kiva to a large group of people and also to flesh out our understanding of the underlying principles of microcredit and it's applications.

More than anything though, I'm extremely interested to hear what a group of suburban high school kids think of the ideas. Fiona and I spent a few hours this evening putting together our presentation. It should be a good one because not only are we talking about something cool and somewhat revolutionary, but also because we'll be able to intersperse it with crazy stories and pictures from years of traveling through third-world countries.

Posted by flow Frazao on January 10, 2006 at 11:30 PM in Kiva/VEF | Permalink