This project was inspired by our Kiva Loans to borrowers around the world and our research on the countries where these borrowers live!

Last year, I took the CEL Social Entrepreneurship class. In it, we loaned to Kiva bor...

To expand out study of the United Nations Global Goals, we chose to focus on U.N. Global Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation.  Too many people in the world do not have access to sufficient amounts of clean water - which should be a basic human right.  What have we learned? What can we do? Check out these Public Service Announcements our 6th grade students put together:

In our CEL Social Entrepreneurship class, we learned about the United Nations Global Goals, some...

In our CEL class, we learned about the U.N. Global Goals and how the goals relate to ...

This year in our CEL Social Entrepreneurship class we learned about the United N...

In our Social Entrepreneurship class, we’ve been talking about the United Nations Global G...

In our CEL Social Entrepreneurship course, we learned about the Un...

This year in CEL class we learned about the United Nations Global ...

We learned about Kiva and the lives of the Kiva borrowers in our CEL ...

Our Spring trimester students brought a new level of enthusiasm and creativity to their Kiva Market products!  The girls created beaded bracelets, decorated notebooks and an amazing variety of slime, along with duct tape wallets and more. The boys made handknitted lanyards and keyrings, splatter paintings of our school mascot, stress balls and sold small bags of bulk candy.  In addition, our 5th grade boys worked with Ms. Allen's 2nd grade ...

Once again, after a brief introduction to microlending, our students had the opportunity to explore borrower profiles from around the world on Kiva.org and then choose who to allocate loans to -- the loans our students made included supporting borrowers who used the money to purchase inventory to re-sell at their village markets, equipment to transport more harvest to sell at market, sewing machines and supplies to create wearable items to sell and much more!

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