He Travels the World Teaching Financial Literacy in Remote Villages - Here's What He Finds

UPDATE: Sad news in early 2025 from Dan Lavin. He wrote, "After 25 USAID Farmer to Farmer volunteer assignments in 3 years teaching business and financial literacy, I am forced to take a break. Six upcoming assignments were also canceled. Assignments were completed in Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Senegal, Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and the last in Timor-Leste. I did additional trips to Ghana and Uganda (non-affiliated). I may have been traveling solo, but I was never alone. The current President of the United States halted all foreign aid, which includes the agencies I serve as a volunteer. While I'm forced to pause, I will be back." He made good on his word, continuing to travel and teach throughout 2025 as his own wallet would allow, although to fewer places. Dan Lavin says he's doing exactly what he wants to do: taking his passion for humanitarian work to far-flung continents where he empowers communities and individuals, teaching them financial literacy through experiential learning. Dan works in places without electricity and few of the comforts we take for granted and he couldn't be happier. Early on, Dan put a legal education to work by learning how to ask the right questions. It's a skill he used extensively as an attorney, an accountant, in the Peace Corp, and now, as a globe-hopping facilitator promoting the gospel of financial literacy in third world countries. Join us as he reveals how loneliness propelled him into recognizing and pursuing the value of human connection and the need to live without regrets and with compassion and kindness. As Dan says, "I hit something magical here." He wants you to find your own magic too. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terisdoingit.substack.com