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Dear Friends,
Mark your calendars! On the evening of May 7th, One Hen will mark its  first year as a nonprofit with:
"It Takes a Village, " at the Wellesley Country Club, a Spring Celebration and Fundraiser featuring an African market, vibrant music, dance and inspiring stories from youth who have gained an entrepreneurial vision for their future through One Hen programs.
We all have reason to celebrate. Since our founding we have reached 5,500 children with direct One Hen programs and 29,700 visitors on www.onehen.org, who in turn use One Hen resources to teach youth that true success comes with personal initiative, financial responsibility and a commitment to community. This would not have been possible without the support of all our partners, including individuals who collectively contributed $7,400 to our end-of-year campaign - enough to send over 120 kids through One Hen's innovative summer school programs. Read more below about our expanding partnerships and progress.
Warm Regards
| Amma Sefa-Dedeh |
Katie Smith Milway |
| Executive Director/Co-Founder |
Board Director/Co-Founder |
What's New at One Hen
NEW - Kojo's Bead Challenge
Make a Difference by registering a team to play games on www.onehen.org to Loan 25,000 beads (worth $250 in real loans to real entrepreneurs!) 
Starts: March 1st, runs to April 30th
Goal: 25,000 beads per team
Registrations begins: February 22nd, 2010
Register here
10K Challenge A Success!
 Congratulations to all teams for working together to Make A Difference.
Total 10K Beads Loaned: 152,286.
Total Loans Matched By 10K: $1,523.00
Top 5 Team Scores:
Weber Peer Leaders - 33,862
Edward Everett Kids Care Club - 31,510
William Merrifield V.C. Agents of Change - 18,916
JFK School, Canton , MA - 16, 601
Builders Care Club - 14,361
Click here for all 10k Team Scores
Sneak Peak - Good Garden coming this Fall!
 A second One Hen enrichment program, Maria's Garden; How Kids Can Fight World Hunger, is set to launch in fall 2010. It will replicate One Hen's Microfinance Teaching System, Kojo's Market: Microfinance for Kids, to introduce children to the concept of food security and what they can do about the global food crisis.
This new enrichment program comes with a new book by Katie Smith Milway, The Good Garden, which will be the basis for a "food security for kids" website: www.thegoodgarden.org. Together, website book and Maria's Garden curriculum will create an integrated environment for children to learn, play and make a difference on issues of food security and sustainable agriculture around the world. Click here to preview and reserve your copy of this new book.
Partnership Updates
City Year Corp Members teach One Hen microfinance lessons to over 800 inner city NYC students
 One Hen lesson plans sponsored by Morgan Stanley, will be part of the City Year Starfish Needs and Wants program being taught to inner city New York youth. Read More...
Babson Undergrads Teach One Hen and Entrepreneurship in Ghana
 Babson Undergraduate Dean Dennis Hanno and over 45 students, faculty and One Hen, Executive Director, Amma Sefa-Dedeh, spent winter break in Ghana, teaching entrepreneurship and business to high school students and adult learners. The One Hen program was also introduced to the Ghana high school students who were trained to use One Hen curriculum and activities in outreach to 4 local middle schools. "The One Hen project is a perfect, hands-on example of Babson's vision to create social value that will have a long-lasting impact on the world. This amazing [high impact ] experience really is global citizenship at its finest." said Dean Dennis Hanno, Dean of the Undergraduate School at Babson College: Read More...
Rotary Club raises micro-loans for Uganda and Kenya with One Hen
 The Rotary Club of Sebastopol, CA initiated the ‘One Hen’ project inviting classrooms to raise dollars for micro-lending projects in Uganda and Kenya. Read More...
Stanford University students start One Hen outreach to East Palo Alto schools
Stanford University’s student members of SEAM (Student for Engagement and Activism in Microfinance) kicked off their five week elementary school One Hen outreach in four East Palo schools. Read More...
Speggcial Thanks
One Hen staff would like to recognize the support and dedication of the entire One Hen board and welcome Elizabeth Perdue as our newest board member. Click here for bios
In the News
Bedtime Reading: Children's Stories To Inspire You In Your Sleep
Huffington Post Blog 1/25/10
Hatherly Students Get Lessons in Microfinance
Scituate Mariner 1/15/10
Amma Sefa-Dedeh named Echoing Green Semifinalist
Echoing Green 01/12/10
Healthy Midlife Crisis: The Making of One Hen, Inc.
Wall Street Journal 12/23/09
Reggcognitions
2010 Spirit of Paper Tigers Project
Selected One Hen for Global Project
http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/announcing-the-spirit-of-papertigers-project/comment-page-1/#comment-10882
2010 Children's Crown Nominee
One Hen Part of CitizenKids series from Kids Can Press
http://readingyear.blogspot.com/
Click Here for a full listing of One Hen awards
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