KIVA update...

As some of you know I’ve been enamored with KIVA for a long time. This is a world- wide organization that specializes in micro-financing.  These are loans that the big banks can't be bothered with but are life saving for the low income entreprenaurs that apply for them.  My small LOAN of $25, paired with other contributors who do the same, makes it possible to empower a person, or group of persons to start a small business. 

I highlighted the word LOAN because that is just what it is.  As the person pays back his or her loan I am repayed.  I then have a choice to take the money back or reloan it to someone else.  I am excited to say that I just got notice of another payment and when I put it back into Kiva it made 49 people that I have given loans to since 2009.  And the most amazing part is that it has cost me very little...just my initial 3 loans that I spaced over 3 months.  Since then I have simply given back to Kiva whenever my repayments reach over $25...and to date the actual money that it has generated is $1,250.

So far I have contributed to people in 41 different countries.  Today's choice is Jameela, from Pakistan.:   

A cross section of others include:  Anysakhon from Kyrgyzastan:

and Theodomir from Rwanda

Check it out.  Kiva has a first rate reputation and has helped to change lives world wide for many years.  It's an example of how a small investment can reap huge benefits.