Resources

=**Resources**.=

=Hero Study:=

Greg Mortenson: Three Cups of Tea
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[|The Young Readers Edition/ Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World...One Child at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin]

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=Social Entrepreneurship:=

Video Created by the Skoll Foundation
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[|Pennies a Day Video: About Muhamad Yunus's transformational work in Bangladesh]

Kiva
Courtesy of CNBC (http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=604752752&play=1) Airtime: Wed. Dec. 5 2007 | :00:0 07 ET A look at how big banks are making a big difference in developing nations, one small loan at a time. media type="custom" key="3665391"

Fistful of Dollars
http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2009/01/07/the-story-of-a-kiva-loan/ This is a terrific movie made by Kiva fellow--Kieran Ball--that helps viewers understand how a loan actually gets disbursed to the entrepreneur. media type="custom" key="3357720" = =

Kiva Curriculum
http://www.kiva.org/about/classroom/

Kiva Book Selections for Kids

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 * __Rickshaw Girl__, by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan

Naima, a ten-year-old Bangladeshi girl has a series of misadventures while trying to help her family earn money. Her talent for painting leads to an unexpected opportunity, while young readers get to learn about microfinance through a colorful woman-owned rickshaw shop. || __One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale__ written and illustrated by Demi

Exotic, beautiful, and instructive, this "mathematical folktale" by author-illustrator Demi emerged from her love of India. The narrative and the evocative illustrations combine to create a real sense of the culture and atmosphere of this romantic land. It's the story of Rani, a clever girl who outsmarts a very selfish raja and saves her village. When offered a reward for a good deed, she asks only for one grain of rice, doubled each day for 30 days. Remember your math? That's lots of rice: enough to feed a village for a good long time--and to teach a greedy raja a lesson. ||

Kiva Book Suggestions for Adults
__Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty__, by Muhammad Yunus This is a great introduction to microfinance - an easy read which tells, in his own words, the story of how Muhammad Yunus started Grameen Bank (one of the first microfinance operations which is now an independent bank in Bangladesh).

__The Economics of Microfinance__ by Beatriz Armendariz deAghion and Jonathan Morduch Not for the weak of heart - this is a very in-depth book focusing on the economics of microfinance, which is used often as a college text book.

__The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time__, by Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey Sachs has a 9 step plan to eliminate extreme poverty by the year 2025. Not directly related to microfinance, but directly related to the reason Kiva facilitates it.

__A Billion Bootstrap__s by Philip Smith and Eric Thurman A bold manifesto by two business leaders, A Billion Bootstraps shows why microcredit is the world's most powerful poverty-fighting movement-and an unbeatable investment for your charitable donations. A Billion Bootstraps explains how ordinary people can accelerate the microcredit movement by investing charitable donations in specific programs and then leveraging those contributions so the net cost to lift one person out of poverty is remarkably low.

Micro loans
Grameen Bank http://www.grameen-info.org/ Muhammad Yunus http://www.muhammadyunus.org/ Living Goods [|http://www.livinggoods.org/] Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/ Women's Initiative http://www.womensinitiative.org/index.htm

Global Poverty
Cate Biggs talks about poverty in the video below. Check out her Power Point presentation. .

=World Savvy Monitor : Free Online Publication About World Affairs for Educators= [|www.worldsavvy.org]

Background Information & Geography
Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/ CIA World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html Global Heritage Fund http://www.globalheritagefund.org/ Google Maps http://www.maps.google.com National Geographic for Kids http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ UNICEF – Info by Country http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/ United Nations Kids http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/

Human Rights
UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2008 http://www.unicef.org/har08/index.html UNICEF Humanitarian Photo Essay http://www.unicef.org/har08/42325.html Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html Wikipedia – Human Rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights

Fair Trade
Fair Trade Certified—home page http://transfairusa.org/ Fair Trade Certified Certification Services http://transfairusa.org/content/certification/ Fair Trade Foundation http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/products/default.aspx Kidz-at-Work http://www.kidz-at-work.net/Fair_Trade_protects_children_s.176.0.html Oxfam – Fair Trade http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/food.htm