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• 07 Jan 10
  

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  iva'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 to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
  
  The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on Kiva, 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.

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• 08 Dec 09
  

  Eduardo Calvachi
• 10 Nov 09
  

  Mrs. Cassinelli
  • When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on Kiva, 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.
• 04 Nov 09
  

  Troy Cherry

  • We Let You Loan to Low Income Entrepreneurs

    
    
    

    

    
    
    

    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 to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

    
    
    

    The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on Kiva,
    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.

    
    
    
    
    

    Kiva partners with existing microfinance institutions.
    In doing so, we gain access to entrepreneurs from 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.
    Kiva creates an interpersonal connection at low costs due to the instant, inexpensive nature of internet delivery.

• 21 Oct 09
  

  agent99

  Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

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  • Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

    
    
    

    The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on Kiva,
    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.

• 12 Oct 09
  

  Vicki Norton

  Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

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• 20 Apr 09
  

  R.C. Iwabuchi

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• 16 Apr 09
  

  James Adala

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  • 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 around the globe.

    
    

    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.

• 20 Feb 09
  

  Gaby K. Slezák
• 16 Jan 09
  

  Sho Tabata

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• 17 Dec 08
  

  Cindy Marston

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• 16 Dec 08
  

  Melissa Julian

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• 09 Dec 08
  

  Heidi Chaves

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• 01 Dec 08
  

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  Maria Monaco

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• 22 Nov 08
  

  Livia C

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• 18 Jul 08
  

  Jennifer Karls
  • to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

  • 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.

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• 14 Jul 08
  

  craig roland

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

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• 17 Jun 08
  

  Takuya Homma
  • iva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
  • Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
• 02 Jun 08
  

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  • 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 nee

• 10 Apr 08
  

  Dennis Richards

  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.

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• 08 Apr 08
  

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  Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique enterpreneurs in the developing world.

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• 31 Mar 08
  

  rob g

  Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. By choosing a loan on Kiva, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence.

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• 03 Mar 08
  

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• 09 Jan 08
  

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• 08 Jan 08
  

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• 06 Jan 08
  

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  • Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses
    in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can
    "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great
    strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the
    loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from
    the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan
    money back.

• 22 Oct 07
  

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• 06 May 07
  

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