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What's New at One Hen One Hen turns One Year Old. May 15 marked the anniversary of onehen.org’s launch at City Year Boston headquarters in 2008, where students from the Roxbury afterschool Starfish program inaugurated the site (see photo below). On May 19th One Hen, Inc. received its 501(c)(3) determination, and in June won both the Massachusetts Book Award and Computerworld’s 21st Century Achievement Award for its website. 
One Hen, Inc. Board names Amma Sefa-Dedeh Executive Director: Amma Sefa-Dedeh, a Ghanaian MBA graduate from Babson College, became One Hen’s first Executive Director on June 15th a month after completing her degree. Ms. Sefa-Dedeh began volunteering with One Hen at its launch in May 2008 and joined the organization’s start-up management team in November as Program Director. Her new role as ED makes her One Hen’s first, full-time, paid staff member. What’s her first challenge? Designing One Hen curriculum for BELL National summer school in July! The Wellesley Townsman newspaper wrote about her appointment. Read More... 
This summer, One Hen will pilot its new 16 session curriculum with leading after school program BELL National at three schools in Boston. 120 children will participate in this interactive program and will explore how they can make a difference in their own life by working hard to achieve their dreams and also make a difference in the life of others by giving back. Most exciting of all, the program will set up a microfinance agency which will give the children small loans to start jewelry making businesses. The young micro-entrepreneurs will offer these for sale to parents as they pick up their children after school and through this process learn critical skills in financial responsibility that will help them to succeed after school. At the end of the program the children will decide how much of the money to Spend, Save and Give and what cause to give towards. Read More... Follow the action and inspiration at the BELL Summer program on the One Hen Summer Teacher's Blog. Read More....
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Partnership News
$100,000 in New Bead Fund: Thanks to a recommitment from Opportunity International of $50,000 and a new pledge of $50,000 from Microplace, an Ebay company. One Hen will have $100,000 to fund the 2009-2010 bead loans. These loans are triggered as children donate beads earned by playing games on onehen.org. So log in now, log in often and learn, play, make a difference! Read More... One Hen presents at Opportunity International Governors’ Conference in San Francisco.
The Board of Governor members and Opportunity International volunteers will help lead outreach to schools and youth programs in their communities. Also attending the conference was Roscoe Mapps, ONE California Organizer, who posted this article on Opportunity International and One Hen on ONE blog. Read More...
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In the News
Reggcognitions 2008-2009 One Hen Award Summaries Kids can Press – Launches CitizenKid: A book collection that makes global issues kid-sized – The collection includes One Hen !
Speggcial Thanks One Hen began and continues to grow as a volunteer driven organisation. We appreciate our enthusiatic volunteers who contributed time and effort this quarter. Read more.... |
