Her name is Nadima. She was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan where she still resides today. Nadima is thirty-eight years old, and a single mother of five teenaged children. She is one of many individuals seeking help through FINCA, and other websites to try and receive a loan of money from other people around the world. These people are searching for just a little help to get them on their feet and put them right back into functioning in society, and helping their economy. For many years she has worked as a clothing sewer, making and repairing clothing. But lately wages have been very low and Nadima is having difficulty paying for her children's educations. In effort to make wages and help her support her large family she applied for a FINCA loan in effort to start her own sewing business. Now, with the loan she is able to have customers coming constantly and she is also able to now support her family and hopefully someday send them off to school to get a better education. When I came across Nadima's story I instantly connected with her. I immediately put myself into her shoes....
Donna Gamble is an Aboriginal woman who lives in my hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a former ward of the state and has spent a significant part of her youth inside of juvenile correction centres. At a young age she started using drugs and alcohol as a form of escape and resorted to prostitution as a means of sustaining her habits. Donna has six children, all with the exception of the youngest two were placed in the custody of child services.
She knows she will never truly experience poverty because this is nothing more than a project but she leaves behind her old life and becomes known as a divorced homemaker reentering the workforce after many years. Her main goal is to get enough income to be able to pay for all her expenses and have enough money to pay next months rent.
her education. Because Katrina’s federal aid for college was rejected, she is unable to go back to
Joyce Stewart is seventy two year old, white female that lives in the small town of Candor New York. She has spent the majority of her life taking care of other people, including her eight children; now six due to tragic circumstances. She also was a house wife trying to survive being a mother to her children while her husband was away in the Navy. She now is a widow; her second husband passed away about ten years ago. She grew up on a farm with a low socio economic status; she overcame circumstances that she was dealt by working her entire life and eventually living a more financially stable life. Joyce is not rich by any means, but is able to live comfortably. She owns her own house that she and
Matt Groening once said “ I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me” which is how I felt when I first started reading Nadja by Andre Breton. The novel Nadja is based on two characters, one being Nadja and the other Breton who meet while wandering the streets of Paris and click. Breton becomes fascinated by Nadja’s view on the world and doesn’t seem to ever think of anything other than Nadja. Nadja ends up sharing too many details from her past causing Breton to realize that he cannot continue with the relationship he had with her. Nadja in the end of the novel is put in an asylum due to her madness. Although many believe that Breton is taking advantage of Nadja, I believe that Nadja is the one taking advantage of Breton because of her badgering and her control over Breton.
Niara Imani Riddick. Woman of purpose that brings peace. This name was given to me two weeks after the day I was born, May 20th, 1999. Born at five pounds, six ounces and five weeks early to a child herself, Bianca Riddick, who was at the tail end of her 10th-grade year in high school and fresh into sixteen.
In conclusion to my case study on Zeena Frome, I’m diagnosing her with the medical disorder, Hypochondria. She has shown many signs of this medical condition like her continuous consumption of medication, excessive doctor’s visits, and her continuous pains and discomfort. I believe that the best way for Zeena to treat this illness would be to follow the recommendations above of getting a therapist, along with trying to break the ongoing cycle she has put herself in. By following this, she should be able to start seeing some improvement overtime. Although she may not make a full recovery, this will certainly help her a great
In this story, the horse dealer's daughter is a young woman named Mabel, who has recently discovered that her family has lost all its money, her brothers can go off and make their own way in the world, but Mabel has nowhere to go. There are a few options open to her -- going to live with a sister, becoming a servant -- but she has run her family's household ever since her mother's death and none of these options are acceptable to her.
Mukherjee then begins to compare and contrast her sister in a subject-by-subject organization. She states, “…she clings passionately to her Indian citizenship and hopes to go home to India when she...
We remember the Holocaust as one of the worst times in human history, but forget that even in the worst of times acts of goodness and compassion could be found. Actions like these remind us that it is in the darkest moments where the brightest heroes often shine. Irena Sendlerowas, amazing courage, day in and day out, changed the lives of over 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust of WWII. In Poland, she is affectionately known as the “mother of the holocaust children.”
...l of her journey, she always tried, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, but she did try to move on. She also learned forgiveness, to others and to herself. Her story is incredibly insightful to the realities of the world. Her problems were none too out of the ordinary; death, infidelity, drugs, scandal- at least one of those is in everyone's life. She admits, “I’d done a lot of dumb and dangerous things in my life…”(Strayed 94). The way she handled certain situations was not the best, but that is what made her life a learning process and more importantly that is the story that has inspired so many lives today.
was well off and needs to find a husband to help her take care of the farm that
In the Pacific there is an island shaped like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephant and birds abound. A young Indian girl lives and waits for her people to return for her, from the land to the east. Karana with her long black hair and her dark skin, held her own on an island after her people had left for a new place. She was sure they would come back the next spring, but after two springs she learned to live on her own. I really admire her strength and her will power. She faces so many different adventures that you can relate to your life in a different fashion.
Microcredit can be defined as small loans, or microloans, for people around the world in extreme poverty to help spur entrepreneurship. The issue of microcredit is extremely important in the world’s economy. Poverty alleviation and economic development are the primary goals of microcredit programs, that is why they began in the developing countries of Asia and Latin America, economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank in Bangladesh are credited of pioneering this financial innovation (Smith, Thurman, 2007). After acquiring a loan, impoverished people get involved in self-employment projects that help them to start a business and begin generating income and in many cases leave poverty. Microcredit offers loans to poor people without requesting any financial history from them. These loans help to improve the quality of life of individuals and communities through commitment. In recent years, the idea of giving small loans to poor people became the darling of the development world, giving a way to propel even the poorest people into better lives (Jolis, 2011).
The first and arguably most common effect of poverty on society is its financial impact (Veritta, 2008). In many of the societies that experienced significantly high levels of poverty, debt was increasingly common, and especially debt accrued from moneylenders (Hatcher, 2016). For many individuals living in poverty, access to financial services such as banking is often stifled and rudimentary, making it difficult for such individuals to access self-improvement loans at standard and fair rates (Yoshikawa, Aber, & Beardslee, 2012). For these individuals, moneylenders are the best option available, which results in them paying exorbitant interest rates. The interconnection between poverty and finance, however, is cyclic in nature. The lack of finances or access to financial services causes poverty, which in turn causes an isolation of individuals from finances and financial services (Hickey & du Toit, 2013). This makes poverty a fairly complex problem to