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Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
The people you see on Kiva’s site are real individuals in need of funding – not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs’ profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else in need.
Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified entrepreneurs. That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva, our partners upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site so you can lend to them. When you do, not only do you get a unique experience connecting to a specific entrepreneur on the other side of the planet, but our microfinance partners can do more of what they do, more efficiently.
Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows throughout the entire cycle, and what effect it has on the people and institutions lending it, borrowing it, and managing it along the way. To do this, we are using the power of the internet to facilitate one-to-one connections that were previously prohibitively expensive. Child sponsorship has always been a high overhead business. Kiva creates a similar interpersonal connection at much lower costs due to the instant, inexpensive nature of internet delivery. The individuals featured on our website are real people who need a loan and are waiting for socially-minded individuals like you to lend them money.
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Micro-financing is one of the most practical solutions to poverty, the work Kiva are doing through Worldvision is awesome!
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I am very much interested in getting involved in this cause. It's been a dream of mine to empower others globally through micro-financing, providing the seed money to launch a small business idea and find their own individual prosperity.
I am making a donation now. I'd like to leave my info should anyone like to get in touch to give me more information.
Thanks. ts.montoya@gmail.com
-Tristan
I ask that you consider us in your next phase of helping the needy organsations.I belong to a none profit making organisation called Grace Community HIV/AIDS,TB Support Programme whose headquaters are in Kabwe.Zambia.Our membership comprises peolpe that are positive living and those that are negative.We have lined up activities for community HIV/AIDS prevention messages for the Adults,Youths and Chidren but unfortunately we have no sponsorship yet to begin the activities.You may help us in any way that you could by sending through our postal box contact address:Grace Church in Zambia,P.O.Box 80236,Kabwe.Zambia. or better still by your donation to my Barclays Bank Account number:016-1056707,Lusaka.Zambia.And your help torwards this good cause will go a long way in helping us in our programmes aimed at addressing prevention of HIV/AIDS in the communities.
I have a dream. It came after I saw your Uganda report about peanut butter. It involves Homeopathy and Bach Flower Formula remedies.
Who should I talk to for I will have a sponsoring group Homeopathy World Community and their sponsorship will be the wisdom and the teaching. Here is who I am. Not much time to waste.
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congrats on being #19 in this month's GQ column "50 Reasons to Have (Actual, Legitimate, Genuine) Hope" :)
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