CitizenKid: One Hen : How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference (Series #5) (Hardcover)

from CamilaDeVeau

Summary: Kojo is a young boy living in a small town in Ghana who has to quit school to help his mother earn enough money for them to survive. The town Kojo lives in decides to put their money together to loan to one person at a time so they can afford something that will help them in their busine...

from pataustin

How often does one find "microfinance" as a keyword of a picture book? Though classified as fiction, the book is based on a true story of a man from Ghana, Kojo, who has a young boy helped support his family when his father died. Everyone in the village saves makes a loan to one person to launch ...

from jdsopinion

This is a fabulous book about the power of effort. I want to buy this and distrubute through out Zambia with one hen per family and see what can happen! Through Northrise University with its new chicken farm we can make a difference for many families and it is modeled by Kojo in this book!

from AmandaLK

This is a beautiful and powerful biographical story of how one boy's loan starts a small business, and how it grows and grows to improve the lives of his family, his village, and his nation. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous. It basically outlines why I want to get into education. I would...

from amassingale

This book is a biography of the life of a boy named Kojo. When Kojo was a young boy, his family got a loan to help improve their life. With this loan, Kojo bought a small hen. With that hen, he sold the eggs and collected money over time to the point where he owned 25 hens, and had enough money t...