Microfinance: Teacher's resource

Microfinance - A Teacher's Resource for the International Year of Microcredit has been written for primary and secondary teachers to introduce students to the concept of microcredit. Microcredit, and more broadly microfinance, is an important tool for reducing poverty and giving poor people a better chance to live. This resource provides teachers with a range of photographs as a photoliteracy tool for exploring the concepts of credit and debt, small business opportunities and microfinance. The material can be adapted to suit a wide variety of year levels and teaching and learning programs. Written and compiled by Francine Smith and Mark Wildy using original photographs by Francine Smith, and published by Global Education Centre (SA) for the Global Education Project. Warning: As a visual literacy program, this resource is based on high quality original photographs, and the files are large (the PowerPoint file is 14MB). There is a CD version available from the Global Education Professional Development Providers listed below.