Kiva is a web site that helps facilitate micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs around the world. (As always, Wikipedia has more information about this organization if you're interested.)
Shea got a Kiva gift certificate as a Mother's Day Gift and is helping two people: Ruth Celenia Santana Morales who sells clothes and jewelery in the Dominican Republic and Umedjon Nurov who raises beef cattle in Tajikistan. One of the coolest things about the site is that once the loan is repaid (the loans have a 99.7% repayment rate) you can either withdraw it or turn around and loan it to someone else.
I first heard about Kiva via the Bill Clinton book, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change The World. There are various other organizations out there that are similar to Kiva but which have different approaches and cater to different needs, groups, countries and so on. Heifer International is one I heard about via Cenobyte for example.
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Tuesday, May 6
Obama vs. McCain - It Begins...Again
by
Jason
on Tue 06 May 2008 08:31 PM CST
Tonight's primaries aren't completely settled and as I write this, Indiana still has to be called. But barring a major backroom deal with both committed and uncommitted super-delegates, Michigan and Florida recounts or incriminating photos of Barack Obama with Osama Bin Laden come to light, the Democratic party nomination has been Obama's for the last two months or so.
So with the Presidential race looking like it will be John McCain versus Barack Obama in the fall, it's interesting to note that this isn't the first time the two men have squared off. The following exchange provides a glimpse behind the power politics of Washington and the character of each man: Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain Exchange Letters on Ethics Reform | U.S. Senator Barack Obama |
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