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== =**Africa Country Research**= Storyboard In doing your research visit both of the following two websites to obtain information about your country:

http://online.culturegrams.com/world/world_region.php?contid=1&wmn=Africa https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/


 * Name of country || Rwanda ||
 * Population size || 9,907,509 ||
 * Per capita GDP || $1,206 ||
 * Main exports || Crops, tea, coffee, hides, tin ore ||
 * Main imports || Machinery, steel, petroleum, cement ||
 * Resources || Gold, tin ore, tungsten ore, methane, hydropower, arable land ||
 * Main ethnic groups || Hutu, Tutsi, Twa ||
 * Primary religions || Roman Catholic, Protestant, Adventist, Muslim ||
 * Unemployment rate || N/A ||
 * Infant mortality rate || 83.42% out of 1,000 ||
 * Life expectancy || 49.76 years ||
 * Literacy rate || 70.4 % ||
 * Human Development Index (HDI) || HDI is a measure of economic and social well being. It factors in life expectancy, literacy, and purchasing power. It is very low in Rwanda at .452. ||

Rwanda is a very poor country in Africa that is recovering from a genocide in 1994. This country is in need of health care and economic assistance. They need economic assistance because they have an extremely low per capita GDP and the country is landlocked making it hard to receive imports and send out exports. They need better health care because a very high infant mortality rate and a low life expectancy.

As you research your “Aid to Africa” organization, be sure to consider the following:

1. How long has the organization been in existence? The organization was started in October of 2005.

2. Who founded it? The organization was founded by Matt and Jessica Flannery.

3. Where is it headquartered? 3180 18th street, San Fransisco

4. What is its purpose? It was created to "connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty." Which basicly means they loan small buisneses in developing countreis money to help their buisnes grow.

5. Does it provide assistance just to Africa, or is it active around the world? Kiva is active around the world in developing countries.

6. Which problem(s) is it addressing in Africa? In Africa, it is addressing the problem of small business owners in need of money that Kiva can loan to them so that they can begin to sell their product(s) and eventually not need financial aid from Kiva anymore.

7. Does it provide assistance to just one or several countries in Africa? Kiva provides assistance to many countries in Africa including Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, and Sierrra Leone.

8. How does the organization raise money for its efforts? Kiva raises money for it's efforts by accepting money from anyone around the world to lend to the organization. Eventually, the entrepeneur that received this money pays off the debt to the original loaner.

9. What is your organization's budget? $205,766.00

10. How much of the money it collects for Africa is used for overhead (expenses)? $55,669.45

11. Have the reviews of your organization's efforts been favorable or critical, i.e., what kind of a "report card" has it been getting? The reviews for Kiva have mostly been favorable but some have been critical including a fraud in Africa.

12. How would you rate your organization's efforts? Has it done "a good job?" Kiva's efforts are a good job but they need to research where they put their money.

13. Do you think donating money to your organization is worthwhile? Donating money to this organization is worth while because it is serving a good cause and you eventually get repaid.