Our favourite way to help others.
This month all our family’s Kiva loans will be directed to the people of the Philippines, after the country was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. It isn’t much, but it’s something, and hopefully will go some way towards not only helping these wonderful people get back on their feet, but also to show them they aren’t alone and there are people in other countries who see their plight and care enough to do something.
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Maybe, just maybe, I chose the girl in the picture as the recipient of this month’s loan because of her lovely smile. Or maybe, just maybe, it was because my daughter, Mishaela (otherwise known as Mishi) is home in G-town at the moment and when I saw this lady’s name I just couldn’t click past it.
Master8 took a turn at choosing someone to help through Kiva this month. Miss9 and Miss6 were looking over his shoulders and adding their two cents worth.
“It’s so hard, Dad,” Master8 told me, as he scrolled through the loans needing funding. “They all need our help.”
We’re not allowed to eat peanuts at home because poor Master8 has to go to hospital if he so much as sniffs at one…
Our monthly KIVA plug 🙂 Kiva gives you the chance to make small loans to borrowers in some of the poorer countries in the world working to start businesses and improve their lives. I’m already lending on Kiva and thought you’d like to join me with a $25 Free Trial. Redeem your Free Trial while they last!
This month we went with this fine looking bunch from Burkina Faso, mainly because we’ve never loaned money to anyone in that country before and we’re trying to fill in our map of the world.
Can I confess something? Until I found this loan I’d never heard of them.
It’s time for our monthly plug for this fantastic organisation which helps hardworking entrepreneurs in 64 countries across the globe to carve out a better life for them and their families.
We love helping people through Kiva and our kids are learning about the world and their privileged place in it.
It’s that time of the month when repayments from our previous KIVA loans come back into our account and we get to lend the money out to the next person. KIVA is a great tool to help kids realize how diverse the world is and just how lucky they are.
Here’s what KIVA has to say about itself – “We are a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.”
Smbat is 20-year-old proactive young man. He lives with his parents in Goris, Armenia. Smbat is engaged in agriculture and is the only breadwinner in the family. He keeps 8 cows, a calf, and 40 sheep.
Idriz is thirty-nine years old, married and has three children between the ages of one and five years old. He works on a farm, earning a very low salary, and his wife is a housewife who stays at home to care for the home and the children. Kiva works with microfinance institutions on five continents to provide loans to people without access to traditional banking systems.
Armando is married and the father of 9 children, 2 of whom are still in School. He lives in his own house with his family and supports 2 grandchildren who live with him.
He is a military pensioner and with this loan he intends to buy one head of cattle to put down and resell the meat
With a loan of 51,750 pesos, Wilfredo has been able to pay off a loan that had an excessively high interest rate.