Got $25? Become a Kiva lender and watch your money transform a life
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Changing the world one loan at a time Sept. 3: With over a million in donations, Kiva.org is redefining the value of $25 dollars. TODAY profiles the charity website. |
By Jen Brown
TODAY
updated 2:31 p.m. PT, Fri., Aug. 31, 2007
When the women in a San Francisco mother’s group called the Pace Mamas read about Tahira Ramzhan, a 25-year-old mother of four struggling to raise her family in Kabul, Afghanistan, they immediately wanted to help.
“We wanted to connect with her, to send her a message that a group of women in the United States cared about her and her family,” Pace Mama member Brandi Bernazzani via e-mail. “We knew how much the support and community of other women had meant to us, especially when we felt unsure and overwhelmed.”
(from Debbie A.; follow the link for the full story)
5 comments:
I've read about this idea in the past and it sounds like an easy way to make a difference in someone's life.
$25.00 is not so much money to us, but it can have a positive effect for the recipient and build good relationships as well.
Hopefully the program is managed on good faith.
Gianna
That's an awesome idea. 25 bucks can affect lives elsewhere in the world even in a recession. There's not a day that passes by that I don't feel so lucky and blessed.
What I like most about programs like KIVA is how people from across the world come together for a common purpose. This definitely shows how personal money can be.
Other micro-credit programs include Africa Alive Microcredit Association who focus on women in Ghana. Many of the goods produced by these women are actually sold in the U.S. and all of the revenue goes back to helping these Ghanaian women.
If you'd like to take a look, here's a link:
http://aama-ghana.org/store.html
I've actually heard of this program before. Its a very creative way to help others in countries across the world. I like the idea because it's not just giving away money, its lending someone money and helping them make a living and work there way out of poverty. It gives them a sense of validation when they are able to finally make a living and pay back all what was loaned to them.
Giving away money to those in need is something we should do more often as a society. Its interesting how as simple as a $5 trip to Starbucks can feed and even provide for other people in third world countries.
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