We would like to ask you to please kindly reccomend Kiva.org to any friends or relatives that are somewhat interested in changing lives. You can also reccomend our website! Thanks!!
The video down on the bottom of this page is about ghana and the olden Empires that were around it as it got founded.
Double Click to get a link directly to You Tube, where you can make the video a fullscreen.
Kiva is a missionary website that helps people start up businesses through Microfinance. Our class looked through the peole who needed help on that website, and decided on a young woman in her thirties who has a daughter who she needs to send to school. But she doesn't have enough money.
She is a resident of Abura, Ghana, located on the southern coast of Ghana, and makes her money(under a dollar a day) Making porrige out of Millet. She needs more money though, because she is running out of millet seeds. So she needs your money.
Kiva-Loans That Change Lives
The people behind Kiva include volunteers, Kiva Fellows, Field Partners, our board, and a team of employees (shown above) and contractors. The Kiva headquarters is located in San Francisco, California.
We are a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Learn more about how it works.
Since Kiva was founded in 2005:
573,153 Kiva lenders
$206 million in loans
98.65% Repayment rate
We work with:
131 Field Partners
450 volunteers around the world
59 different countries
(All of this information was taken directly from the about page of Kiva.org)
