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Showing posts with label Kiva. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kiva. Show all posts
Saturday, November 22, 2008
It's good news week
Im all the gloom, a ray of light: Kiva has just hit $50 million in micro-loans to poor entrepreneurs around the world. Join one of their teams - I have (click on logo in sidebar).
Saturday, November 08, 2008
A brilliant idea - Kiva microfinance
Let's think about people to whom $25 would make - is making - a difference. Rory Sutherland's column in The Spectator this week is about Kiva, a project that lends small sums to individuals and groups around the world, mostly to set up or develop little businesses.
They repay from their increased production, you get to re-lend to more people. Really, it's a way that the poor but proud can help each other, using your finance to grease the wheels.
Having read Sutherland, I've just joined, and I really feel good about it. Why don't you?
They repay from their increased production, you get to re-lend to more people. Really, it's a way that the poor but proud can help each other, using your finance to grease the wheels.
Having read Sutherland, I've just joined, and I really feel good about it. Why don't you?
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