Living on One Dollar is an award-winning film that has been called “A Must Watch” by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Director of The Hunger Games, Gary Ross.
The movie follows the journey of four friends who are travelling across rural Guatemala with only $1 a day during two months. As shown in the trailer below, the friends experience extreme financial stress as they attempt to survive life on the edge:
The story began while in Guatemala, four friends released short YouTube videos about the experience to help their friends learn alongside them in real time. The videos quickly received over 700,000 views, inspiring them to complete a feature-length film, Living on One Dollar, to mobilize others to help end extreme poverty.
We thought that it was worth publishing this story on Techfoliance to help you better understand the challenges in emerging countries in terms of financial inclusion and how Fintech could, in some ways, contribute to improve the lives of millions of people across the world.
Learn more here: http://www.LivingonOneDollar.org
