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Two Dollar Challenge

By Andrew Koehler on April 13, 2010

TDC-words-with-tag-line1This year, Opportunity International is proud to announce our partnership with the Two Dollar a Day Challenge (TDC). TDC is an initiative that began with Shawn Humphrey, assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mary Washington. Shawn charged his students with the very same challenge that people all over the world are faced with every day; to live on $2 or less a day. He has asked students at University of Mary Washington to reach out to their friends and other schools around the country to see if they, too, would like to take on the challenge for one week throughout the month of April.

The Two Dollar a Day Challenge has selected Opportunity International as their microfinance charity partner, encouraging all student groups involved with TDC to fundraise for their challenge week on behalf of Opportunity International. TDC requests that all proceeds go to funding hardworking entrepreneurs on OptINnow.org.  Check out the TDC blog at http://www.twodollarchallenge.org/.

Looking forward to seeing how the experience of living on $2 a day motivates students across the country to action!

 

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Comments

  • ljj

    I commend all the students who took part in the two dollar challenge. I'm sure it wasn't easy to walk in the shoes of our clients and live on two dollars a day. Great to hear that students are taking it upon themselves to become globally conscious.