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Yesterday, I loaned a woman in South America $25 to help her buy parts for her bicycle repair business. I was one of several people who helped her meet her loan goal of $295, and I can expect to be repaid the loan in full within the next 6 months. So little effort on my part, but a huge opportunity for her.
I loaned this money through Kiva.org, a non-profit that brings together people who want to help others with those who need help, in the form of non-interest paying small loans.
Charitable giving is important, and all of us who have the means to give, in my mind, should. But there is something breathtakingly simple and powerful when the tool of the Internet allows each of us to make small loans, not gifts, that carry such great benefits. Doing so doesn’t offset the call to give rather than loan, as necessary and as we are able, but we can easily and effortlessly help in this other way that empowers and creates prosperity for others.
I hope you’ll visit Kiva.org.
~ Zoe, IHE President
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Kiva was featured in the fall issue of Greater Good magazine. If you’re interested in what Kiva does, then you should check this magazine out. This issue explores “The 21st Century Family,”
discussing the many ways that American family life has been transformed in
recent years. Families today face issues their grandparents could scarcely
have imagined: the challenges of being a dual-income couple; the questions
faced by gay and lesbian parents and stay-at-home dads; and the obstacles
confronted by all families today to find time for one another and make
ends meet.
This issue of Greater Good gets past overheated rhetoric about the decline
of the family and delves into new research findings. Contributors bring
these research findings to life in honest, revealing portraits of typically
atypical 21st century families, and they make clear how families can still
thrive during this period of transition. As historian Stephanie Coontz
makes clear in the issue’s lead essay, it’s not the changes themselves but
how families respond to them that will determine how well they fare in the
21st century.
Link to this article:
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/
greatergood/current_issue/Coontz.html
[...] into the future without requiring their annual donations to stay viable. This is the premise behind Kiva.org. Investors donate small sums to enable people to start businesses. The investor is repaid and can [...]