November 25, 2013

Today in Mr. Schick’s Human Geography class we worked as a class on a power point about microfinance. I could not do a lot for the power point because my computer could not connect to the internet. I did work with Hanna though and we did add some information to the slides. At first I thought that this was going to be a total disaster, but in the end the power point did end up looking nice. In the power point we talked about microfinance and what it means. Microfinance is the lending of small amounts of money at low interest to new businesses in the developing world. We also talked about what developing countries are dealing with. They are dealing with things like diseases (malaria), famine, drought, poor health care, poverty, and pollution. We talked about common uses for microloans to. These loans are usually used for starting up new businesses.