I made my first microfinance loan today!!
I came to know about Kiva when I attend the TiE conference last month. [TiE - The Indus Entrepreneurs). Premal Shah, who is the president of Kiva, was one of the winners of the top 50 startups award at the conference. And he was also one of the speakers on social entrepreneurship. Man, you should hear him speak... he just is so simple and sincere and straight-from-the-heart and obviously, his presentation touched, and inspired me.
Kiva - the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
Of course, I got in touch with him right away and it helped that we had a couple of common friends. Well.. thats how Kiva started for me. And I wanted to lend on Kiva, but somehow did not get to it... Until today that is!
I got the tweet last week about a mixer organized by Kiva and the Good magazine in the city. And I decided to attend that. I marked my calendars and worked through a couple of things - one of them being that I should be a lender before I attend the party!!
Of course.. it is fun partying... and if I can mix partying with doing good... Wow! what can beat that?!?!
The party was today (Tuesday) and it was great, but that is another post! This post is about Kiva. And Kiva is cool!!! Check it out!!
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6 comments:
Super! I hope many more will follow. Lending is like a virus, once you started..... :P
What a cool thing to do, Bhaskar!
Very good Initiative
God Bless You
@ mama muis
yup... good deeds are infectious! hope they turn into a chain reaction... :-)
@sujatha
absolutely! join the fun!!
@sri
thanks! join the fun!!!
In helping others, we actually help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us :-)
Hope to see u as promising Entrepreneur soon...and appo party koodakkannum :-))
sudha
@sudha
what goes around comes back around..!
sure.. ;-)
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