BDN Reports on UMaine Student’s Humanitarian Award
The Bangor Daily News reported on a $10,000 national Pearson Prize awarded Monday to UMaine financial economic and business administration major Rachel Binder-Hathaway, a Millinocket native who established a non-profit organization, Seeds of Change, to help impoverished women and street orphans in Bangladesh access food, medical care and educational opportunities. Binder-Hathaway has been living in Bangladesh studying microfinance and researching how best to make micro-business loans available to the poor as a way out of poverty. A UMaine news release has additional detail.
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