My Experience as a Kiva Fellow Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Kiva combines the poverty alleviating power of microfinance with the mass participation of the internet. It lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Since 2005‚ nearly 570‚000 people have used Kiva.org to fund +$200M in microloans through MFIs to more than 526‚000 working poor entrepreneurs around the world. Source: Kiva
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Motivation Letter Electrical Engineering In pursuance to my graduate studies in Electrical engineering‚ I have discovered that it will help enlarge my knowledge of Electrical Engineering and the Technology behind electricity‚ hence my strong desire for Electrical Engineering. In addition to the vast potential of the masters program‚ it will give me opportunity of getting a better job anywhere in the world. The world of Electrical Engineering is fast growing every day; it motivates me hence I decided
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They spoke a different tongue‚ proto-Bantu‚ which is the parent language of a large number of interconnected Bantu languages still spoken all through sub-Saharan Africa. In fact‚ about 90 percent of the languages south of the border from the Bight of Benin on the west coast to Somalia on the east coast are a branch of the Bantu family (Gordon 102). Why and how these inhabitants stretched out into central and southern Africa remains unknown‚ but historians believe that at some period their iron weaponry
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By Apioth Mayom Apioth Slavery ’s last fortification in Africa is Mauritania. According to a November 11‚ 2013‚ New York Times ’ article by Adam Nossiter entitled ’Mauritania Confronts Long Legacy of Slavery‚ ’ close to 140‚000 or 4% of the total population is in chattel slavery: meaning it is passed down from one generation to the next. Centuries after the slavery was abolished in the Americas and Europe‚ Mauritania is still holding a dirty secret‚ right in our backyard. Two days ago‚ I
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Could you envision waking up one morning and an ordinary person‚ like you and me‚ comes and takes you away from your family‚ freedom‚ and rights as a human? In the 1700s‚ African Americans were abducted from their dormitories‚ auctioned off‚ and sold into slavery. Some of them favored the idea of coming to the New World as indentured servants‚ but when they arrived things changed. During this time‚ the notion of “ all men being free‚” was proposed by Benjamin Franklin‚ but in contrary‚ all men weren’t
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Essay Question Dayja Grays Period 4 12-7-12 The African empires‚ kingdoms‚ and cities had many great achievements before the arrival of the Europeans. African empires‚ kingdoms‚ and cities were very successful with trading and social structure. The kingdom of Ghana gained control over the trans-Saharan gold and slat trade (doc. #2).Ancient Ghana was a very complex empire it had many characteristics of a powerful nation needed as if of today’s nation. The empires wealth was based on the
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RnRCompanyProfiles.com offers “Allianz Africa S.A. : Company Profile and SWOT Analysis” report published in Feb 2014. This report is of 14 pages and available starting US $ 125 for a single user PDF license. Order it now at http://www.rnrcompanyprofiles.com/contacts/purchase?rname=165197 . Synopsis Researcher’s “Allianz Africa S.A. : Company Profile and SWOT Analysis” contains in depth information and data about the company and its operations. The profile contains a company overview‚ key facts
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In this essay I would be expressing my reaction to about the African descendants in Puerto Rico; I strongly believe if you’re a descendent of the afro-boriquin‚ you should learn about your culture and your background‚ the reason why I say that is because if you ask any Afro-Boriquin to tell you about the culture and were there from‚ some of them won’t know what to say‚ by reading this passage I learn so much about the Afroborincano‚ then I do in regular history class. Afro-Puerto Rican (Afro-Boriquin
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African slaves were a huge part of the Atlantic world. They made early america flourish. Without them american wouldnt of had the work force needed to produce the goods they needed to survive. Enslaving Africans had many causes and effects in the Atlantic world that greatly affected early America and Africa. African slaves weren’t the first people to be enslaved in the new world. They started with Native Americans forcing them to work on their plantations like surfs in the feudal system. Natives
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Dissertations and Theses in Agricultural Economics Agricultural Economics Department 8-1-2013 THE IMPACT OF THE AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT (AGOA): AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS Addisalem Zenebe University of Nebraska-Lincoln‚ addiszeneb@gmail.com Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/agecondiss Part of the Agricultural and Resource Economics
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