
“Kiva – Loans that Change Lives”
I do not know if you have seen the commercials for Kiva, an online site which promotes micro-financing, but they certainly caught my eye.
The notion is simple; Kiva helps you to connect with someone in need of what you may think of as a small loan, perhaps a few hundred dollars. You lend them the money; and they use the money to start a business which then allows them to repay the loan.
Please check out their website and see if Kiva is the kind of organization you may want to become involved with, it is amazing what can be accomplished with the smallest amount of effort. http://www.kiva.org/