Hablemos de Dinero: Financial Literacy in Spanish

March 24, 2004 -- When a rural Indiana NeighborWorks® organization and one of its lender-partners each discovered that the only available financial literacy training for their Hispanic customers was taught in English, they saw both a problem and an opportunity. In response, they created a financial-literacy program in Spanish. The program's goals are to encourage the Hispanic community to establish banking relationships, help Hispanic families progress toward home ownership and decrease the incidence of predatory lending among Indiana's Hispanic population. Read the story [PDF, 114KB].

For more information on the NeighborWorks network, visit www.nw.org.

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