Fri, Mar 5, 2010
Alvin Hall, a business and financial expert, is traveling the world helping social entrepreneurs - business people more interested in doing good than making money - become more successful. Land mines are indiscriminate killers. It's feared that it will take 500 years to clear them all. But can highly trained rats, with their incredible sense of smell, help sniff then out faster? Alvin witnesses these remarkable rodents in action and advises Apopo, the social enterprise behind this remarkable idea, how to secure their financial future.
Sat, Apr 3, 2010
Alvin Hall, a business and financial expert, is traveling the world helping social entrepreneurs become more successful. Can the poor borrow their way out of poverty? Alvin aims to find out by lending just $25 to two small business women in Tanzania, via Kiva, a global micro-finance website. Can Alvin help Kiva achieve its ambitious goal of reducing global poverty by linking lenders directly to small entrepreneurs, using the power of the Internet?