Kenya Follow-Up

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Permalink Reply by Sophia Dawkins on February 22, 2010 at 4:13pm

I am fortunate to be part of a group of student volunteers who support a micro-savings initiative that I helped launch. This initiative works through the Kibera School of Hope in the Kibera slum of Nairobi to integrate community savings groups for school fees, a nutrition program and income generation activities with management of the school. The savings groups provide financial education and access to credit as a starting point for families to achieve their aspirations.

The Summit would enrich a broad body of students’ understanding of successful microfinance programming, allowing us to tap new innovations. After attendance, I would share the knowledge I acquire with my fellow student volunteers so that we can translate the fruits of the Summit to better programming. In addition, this transfer of ideas would enable our volunteer group to strengthen the quality of debate about microfinance at multiple forums within our community. In this respect, the Summit opens unique programmatic and academic opportunities for students on campus.

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