Kiva Loans that change lives - please join us

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Kiva's mission is to connect people through micro-lending to empower individuals and unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. Current activity 77 members and 66 loans in total of $1775

Website: http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=1315
Location: Everywhere
Members: 60
Latest Activity: May 21, 2011

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We Let You Loan to the Working Poor

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

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.

By joining Kiva and lending relatively small amounts you will have HUGE impact on people like Mohammad Halam from Kabul, Afghanistan

Mohammad Halam is very happy now when we went and ask he about his business he was really very strong in his business, he said I complete my wishes to further life and business, now he attracted more customers and developed his business and expand his inventory stock and some thing important is making enlarge his shop and he can repay the loan very well, when we ask he, would like to containing his partner ship he said yes for the next loan I can open anther shop at end he thank again from those that helped he in this process

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Comment by Roni Segoly on October 24, 2008 at 8:50am: They have to have some organization register to Kiva and handle the loans, see on Kiva now there is new organization doing it in Lebanon, we need same thing here

Comment by Yigal D. Kahana on October 23, 2008 at 7:20pm: Hi Roni,
Is there any way to get some Kiva loans to go to Ethiopian Israelis as well?

Comment by Roni Segoly on October 23, 2008 at 2:48pm: Current activity 70 members and 60 loans in total of $1625

Comment by Roni Segoly on October 21, 2008 at 2:23pm: Current activity 69 members and 54 loans in total of $1425

Well done my friends

Comment by Roni Segoly on October 19, 2008 at 10:12am: Current activity 69 members and 49 loans in total of $1300

Comment by Roni Segoly on October 15, 2008 at 4:44pm: You mean Kiva projects? According to their FAQ they changed the system and now they have too much money to loan and too less people to loan to, it changes daily so you need ot check every day

Comment by Roni Segoly on October 15, 2008 at 10:29am: Current activity 62 members and 34 loans in total of $925

Comment by Vincent Mespoulet on October 14, 2008 at 10:31am: i don't understand how to give 25$ for a project Roni, can you write a FAQ about it here ?