Day 24: Kiva cards
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Kiva is a unique kind of charity. Yes, you donate money ... but then you get it back again.
Participants help out an entrepreneur in the developing world by loaning them the cash to invest in new machines, animals, stock, property ... whatever their needs. The entrepreneur specifies a timeframe for repayment and returns the money to you – which you can then pass on to another hopeful businessperson. Thus same gift can be loaned again and again and again.
Yenoh from Sierra Leone would like a loan to purchase more food stocks for her cookery business. In the future, Yenoh plans to acquire land and also educate her four children to university level.
Eunice from Kenya does tailoring and sells clothing along a busy road. She is asking for a loan of Kes 20,000 to buy more clothes materials. In the future, she hopes and dreams to run a tailoring school.
22-year-old Maryuri from Ecuador works in agriculture planting crops of corn and rice on family property. She is asking for a loan in order to buy seed, fertiliser and compost for the crops.
You can send a Kiva card digitally by ordering one here.
Or browse the prospective entrepreneurs signed up with Kiva here.
Lend away!
