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First came the very special One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, which taught kids about microfinance. Now, Katie Smith Milway brings us another powerful book: The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough (Kids Can Press). The Good Garden tackles the topic of food security and is the inspiring story of a Honduran young girl and her family’s journey to growing enough food to meet their needs (you can watch a book trailer here). The book is accompanied by a Good Garden Enrichment Program, an online resource developed by One Hen, Inc.
A portion of all book sales go to fund One Hen, Inc.’s programs in disadvantaged communities.
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On the evening of May 7th, One Hen Inc. will mark its first anniversary with a celebration and fundraiser “It Takes a Village”. The celebration will take place at the Wellesley Country Club in Wellesley, MA, USA from 6:30 – 10pm. Highlights will include an African market, vibrant music, dance and inspiring stories from youth who have gained an entrepreneurial vision for their future through One Hen programs. Author ofOne Hen and co-founder of One Hen, Inc., Katie Smith Milway will be speaking and attendees will be shown a multimedia presentation of One Hen’s unique summer school enrichment program that helps inner city kids learn to build small businesses and share their success with their communities.
There’s plenty to celebrate! In the past year visitors from over 133 countries have used www.onehen.org and have accessed the One Hen resources that teach youth that true success comes with personal initiative, financial responsibility and a commitment to community. 7,0000 children have been involved in direct One Hen programs and Executive Director/Co-Founder Amma Sefa-Dedeh says that with this anniversary celebration/fundraiser they hope to raise enough funds to send 1,000 inner-city kids to this year’s One Hen summer school enrichment program.
Tickets for the celebration/fundraiser are $75 each and can be purchased by calling 917-319-0485 or e-mailing amma(at)onehen(dot)org.
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Today’s Books at Bedtime feature isOne Hen by Katie Smith Milway, illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes. Much has been written already about this book in PaperTigers and elsewhere. It was selected for the Spirit of Paper Tigers Project and will likely see its way into many hands hence. The story is about microfinance and features Kojo, a little Ghanaian boy, who, with a loan, buys himself a hen. What Kojo does with that one hen changes his life and everyone else’s around it.
By the time I got to this book with my daughter for her bed time read, she’d already been exposed to it at school. But that did not diminish her enjoyment of the story the second time round. She loved the colorful illustrations by Eugenie Fernandes and was quick to point out some lovely things I would have never noticed in the pictures like the colorfully clad chicken mothers in the market of one drawing. The story is set up perfectly for children to understand. The purchase of one hen leads to the purchase of another and so forth until by the end of the book, Kojo, a grown man, is shown as a producer of one of the largest poultry farms in West Africa. That’s microfinance in a nutshell, or rather, in a children’s book! And the great thing about this book is that it’s based on the true life story of Ghanaian producer Kwabena Darko.
One Hen is a truly inspiration and informative read. If you can, I suggest you buy the book as some of the proceeds of the sales will go directly to the One Hen: Microfinance for Kids organization.
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Since it’s publication in 2008, One Hen: How One Small Loan Made A Big Difference has evolved from an inspirational story into a non-profit organization One Hen, Inc. Co-founders Katie Smith Milway and Amma Sefa-Dedeh tell the story of how and why this organization came about in this video.
To learn more about One Hen, Inc. and it’s accompanying websites click here. Also, be sure to read our recent interview with One Hen author Katie Smith Milway here.
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First came the very special One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, which taught kids about microfinance. Now, Katie Smith Milway brings us another powerful book: The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough (Kids Can Press). The Good Garden tackles the topic of food security and is the inspiring story of a Honduran young girl and her family’s journey to growing enough food to meet their needs (you can watch a book trailer here). The book is accompanied by a Good Garden Enrichment Program, an online resource developed by One Hen, Inc.
Since it’s publication by Kids Can Press in 2008, 